An East of England

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team (known simply as "East") was organised on an ''ad hoc'' basis at intervals between 1874 and 1948. ''CricketArchive'' lists ten East matches in total, five of them rated first-class. Four first-class matches were against

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and one, in 1927, against the touring

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Summary of first-class matches

5 September 1892 — East v

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. West won by 48 runs. : West 186 ( John Shilton 6/63) and 163 (Hornsby 8/63) ; East 159 and 142. : Note :

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(West) took thirteen wickets in the match with 7/56 and 6/53 3 September 1894 — East v

. Match drawn. : East 305 and 129/6d ; West 272 and 71/0. 20 June 1910 —

v East at

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. West won by 4 wickets. : East 295 (Freeman 94) and 112 ; West 199 and 210/6. 9 July 1927 — East v

at Harecroft Road,

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. New Zealanders won by 8 wickets. : East 170 and 145 ; NZ 243 (Hazelton 5/68) and 76/2. 8 September 1948 — East v

at Leyland Motors Ground,

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. East won by 223 runs.East v West 1948
CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 February 2014. : East 392 (Pawson 128*) and 304-8d (Todd 107) ; West 294 (Sims 3/82) and 179 (Sims 10/90). : Note : Jim Sims (East) took thirteen wickets in the match, including the rare feat of ten wickets in an innings with his 10/90 in the second innings.

Players

The following 53 players represented East in first-class matches. Two players,

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and Charles Wright made two appearances, the rest one apiece. *

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(1892) * Tom Barling (1948) * Alex Bowell (1910) *

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(1892) *

Syd Brown Sydney Maurice Brown (8 December 1917 – 28 December 1987) was an English cricketer active from 1937 to 1955 who played for Middlesex in 329 first-class matches as an opening batsman. He was born in Eltham, Kent, and died at Rickmansworth, Her ...

(1948) *

Claude Buckenham Claude Percival Buckenham (16 January 1876 – 23 February 1937) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Essex and England. He also won a gold medal playing football at the Olympic Games in 1900. Life and career Tall and gangling, an ...

(1910) * Frederick Burton (1927) *

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(1927) * Richard Carter (1927) * Reginald Covill (1927) *

Dickie Dodds Thomas Carter Dodds, known in his cricket career as Dickie Dodds and outside it as Carter Dodds, (29 May 1919 – 17 September 2001) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Essex between 1946 and 1959 as a hard-hitting opening batsm ...

(1948) *

Ray Dovey Raymond Randall Dovey (18 July 1920 – 27 December 1974), known as Ray Dovey, was an English cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club from 1938 to 1954. Dovey was born in Chislehurst in Kent in 1920 and first played for Kent before t ...

(1948) * Francis Ford (1892) *

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(1927) * John Freeman (1910) *

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(1948) *

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(1927) * Wyndham Hazelton (1927) *

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(1894) *

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(1894) * Norman Holloway (1927) *

(1892/94) * Leonard Irvine (1927) * Alec Kennedy (1910) *

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(1894) * Eustace Malden (1892) * Frederick Martin (1894) *

Charlie McGahey Charles Percy McGahey (12 February 1871 – 10 January 1935) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Essex between 1894 and 1921. McGahey also played for London County between 1901 and 1904 and was named as one of the Wisd ...

(1910) * Arthur McIntyre (1948) *

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(1910) * Walter Mead (1910) * Jack Mee (1892) * Billy Newham (1892) * Tony Pawson (1948) *

Percy Perrin Percival Albert Perrin (26 May 1876 – 20 November 1945), known as either "Percy" or "Peter", was an English cricketer, who played for Essex as a right-handed middle-order batsman for more than thirty years from 1896. Perrin was a Tottenham p ...

(1910) *

Walter Read Walter William Read (born 23 November 1855 in Reigate, Surrey, died 6 January 1907 in Addiscombe Park, Surrey) was an English cricketer. A fluent right hand bat, he was also an occasional bowler of lobs who sometimes switched to quick overa ...

(1894) * Bill Reeves (1910) * John Robinson (1894) * John Searby (1927) * John Shilton (1892) * Jim Sims (1948) * Ray Smith (1948) * Peter Smith (1948) *

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(1894) * Jimmy Stone (1910) * Charles Titchmarsh (1927) * Leslie Todd (1948) * Bert Tremlin (1910) *

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(1892) *

George Vernon George Frederick Vernon (20 June 1856 – 10 August 1902) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club. He also played one Test match for England during the first-ever Ashes tour in 1882-83. Biog ...

(1892) *

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(1894) * Charles Wright (1892/94) * Walter Wright (1894)

References

{{Reflist * Former senior cricket clubs

Summary of first-class matches

Players

See also

References