Edwin Harvey Bryant (12 September 1886—24 October 1948) was an English

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er who played 16 first-class games for

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in the 1920s. He top-scored with 41 in the second innings of his debut against

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, but his career was not successful. Bryant made 63 in the first innings against

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in June 1924, but this was to prove his only half-century. Indeed, his

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in the second innings of that match began a dreadful sequence of scores: he was dismissed for nought five times in six innings (making just 5 in the other), and for single figures in the four innings immediately thereafter. He played his last match against

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in June 1925; his final innings was another duck.

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