Edward Sayres (born 19 December 1815 at North Stoke,

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; died 11 January 1888 at

Cold Ashton Cold Ashton is a village in South Gloucestershire, England. It is located north of Bath, near the junction between the A46 and A420 roads. The village church has a 14th-century tower and the rest of the church was rebuilt in the 16th century ...

, Gloucestershire) was an English amateur

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er who played first-class cricket from 1838 to 1842. Edward Sayres was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. A right-handed batsman and right arm slow roundarm bowler who was mainly associated with Cambridge University, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and

, he made 24 known appearances in first-class matches and took 100 wickets. He played for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players series. In later life he was a clergyman. He was ordained in Norwich in 1845, and served as

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at Cold Ashton from 1850 until his death in 1888. He and his wife Anna married in 1847 and had four sons and three daughters.Philip Paine, "Two Cricket-Playing Rectors", ''The Cricket Statistician'', Spring 2017, pp. 24–30.

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* H S Altham, ''A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914)'', George Allen & Unwin, 1962 * Arthur Haygarth, ''Scores & Biographies'', Volumes 1–11 (1744–1870), Lillywhite, 1862–72 1815 births 1888 deaths English cricketers English cricketers of 1826 to 1863 Cambridge University cricketers Gentlemen cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Sussex cricketers Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Cambridge Town Club cricketers Oxford and Cambridge Universities cricketers 19th-century English Anglican priests Gentlemen of Sussex cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1810s-stub

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