Edward Hyde (Cambridge Cricketer)
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Edward Richard Bebbington Hyde (born 12 December 1997) is an English wicketkeeper batsman. He was born in
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and attended
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in
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and
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. He was then awarded a Skinners' Company exhibition to
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.


Cricket

After playing at school and through the Cambridgeshire (Under-10 to Under-15) and Kent (Under-14 to Under-17) age-groups, he has played for
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, Cambridge MCCU and Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club. In 2018, he played his first Minor Counties Championship match for Cambridgeshire against Suffolk at Saffron Walden. He first played for Cambridge in the 2018 season, including in the 2018
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match against
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at the
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and in the one-day University Match at Lord's where he won his Cambridge Blue. He went on that year to play
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in the four-day
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at the University Parks.


Other sports

He won the 2017 and 2018 UK National Under 21 Rackets doubles championships with Ben Cawston and Rory Giddins respectively and went on to win the Under 24 doubles championship in 2019 with Ben Cawston. He was 2018 National Under 21 singles Real tennis champion in 2018 and won the National Under 24 doubles with Robert Shenkman in 2019. He won Cambridge Blues for both sports in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 and for Rugby Fives in 2020 and 2021.


See also

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List of Cambridge University Cricket Club players This is a list in alphabetical order of cricketers who have played for Cambridge University Cricket Club (CUCC) in top-class matches since the club was first recorded in 1817. CUCC teams have always had important or first-class cricket status. B ...
* List of Cambridge UCCE & MCCU players


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hyde, Edward 1997 births Living people People from Huntingdon People educated at Tonbridge School Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge English cricketers Cambridge University cricketers Cambridgeshire cricketers Cambridge MCCU cricketers