Edwin Holroyd (27 October 1855 — 9 April 1914) was an English
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. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for
Lancashire. He was born in
Halifax, Yorkshire and died in
Rochdale,
Lancashire.
Holroyd made a single first-class appearance, against
Nottinghamshire in 1878. Batting in the middle order, he made just two runs in the first innings and four in the second.
Holroyd played three games over the following three seasons for Rochdale - twice playing against a team of touring Australians.
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1855 births
1914 deaths
English cricketers
Lancashire cricketers
Cricketers from Halifax, West Yorkshire