Clement Mitchell (20 February 1862 – 6 October 1937) was an English sportsman who represented the
England national football team
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and played
first-class cricket
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for
Kent County Cricket Club
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.
Mitchell was born at
Cambridge
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in 1862 and was educated at
Felsted School
(Keep your Faith)
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.
[Clement Mitchell]
CricInfo
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. Retrieved 2018-12-19.[Mitchell, Mr Clement]
Obituaries in 1937, ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
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'', 1938. Retrieved 2018-12-19. He was the first Englishman to score a
hat-trick
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Origin
The term first appeared in 1858 in cricket, to describe H. H. Stephenson taking three wic ...
against Wales in an international, with goals in the 16th, 70th and 90th minutes of their 1883 clash at
Kennington Oval
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. A centre-forward, he also scored a goal in a loss to Scotland a month later and in a 1–1 draw with Wales at the
1885 British Home Championship.
Mitchell had been a dominant batsman at school and played club cricket for Crystal Palace Cricket Club. In club cricket he scored double centuries and between 1890 and 1892 made eight first-class cricket appearances as a left-handed batsman for Kent.
[Clement Mitchell]
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-12-19. He had less success at
county cricket
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level, scoring 126 runs at a
batting average
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Cricket
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of less than 10 runs per innings.
[Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 389–390.]
Available online
at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
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. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
Mitchell died at
Aldrington
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in
Sussex
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in 1937 aged 75.
References
External links
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1862 births
1937 deaths
English footballers
England international footballers
Upton Park F.C. players
English cricketers
Kent cricketers
Association footballers not categorized by position