Edward Jewel Whitting (1 September 1872 – 8 March 1938) was an English

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er who made one first-class appearance in 1892. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler, although he did not bowl in first-class cricket.

Cricket career

Whitting attended

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, and among his appearances for the school's cricket team, he top-scored in both innings for the school in an 1889 match against

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, making 15 and 51 respectively. He captained the side in the same fixture the following season, and claimed two wickets in Marlborough's first-innings, before scoring a half-century in Rugby's second-innings. During 1890, he played his first and solitary match for

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, appearing for the side in a second-class match against

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. Whitting scored a

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in his only innings. Somerset won the match by ten wickets, and remained unbeaten for the rest of the season, gaining admission to the

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for the following season. He remained as captain of the Rugby School first eleven in 1891 and his performance stood out during a single-innings match against

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in which he top-scored for Rugby with 46, and claimed three wickets. He made his only first-class appearance in 1892. Somerset were due to play

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, but the match was played as a twelve-a-side contest in which Norman Cooper of Cambridge University represented the Somerset side. Due to this, the Somerset side was entitled ' HT Hewett's XII', with HT Hewett being Somerset's captain at the time. Whitting scored one run in the first-innings and remained

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, and added another five runs in the second-innings. The Somerset side won by 194 runs. He appeared on six occasions for the

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in 1893 and 1894, none of which were considered first-class fixtures. In each of the two years, he played against

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, Monmoutshire and

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. His highest score in these matches was 71, which he made against Herefordshire in 1893.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Whitting, Edward 1872 births 1938 deaths English cricketers People educated at Rugby School People from Mylor, Cornwall Cricketers from Cornwall