Ernest Malden (10 October 1870 – 13 September 1955) was an English
cricket
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er. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played one
first-class cricket
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match for
Kent County Cricket Club
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CricInfo
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. Retrieved 2018-09-30.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 349–350. Available online at the
Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
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. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
Malden was born in
Sheldwich
Sheldwich is a village and civil parish in the far south of the Borough of Swale in Kent, England.
Geography
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in
Kent
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in 1870. His only first-class appearance was against MCC in June 1893 at
Lord's
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.Ernest Malden CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-09-30. His cousin
Eustace Malden
Eustace Malden (19 August 1863 – 3 December 1947) was an English cricketer. He played 13 first-class matches, all but one of them for Kent County Cricket Club, between 1892 and 1893.Eustace Malden CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-09-30. and Eustace's son,
Jack Malden
William Jack Malden (14 May 1899 – 23 November 1963) was an English cricketer. Malden was a right-handed batsman. He played mainly for Sussex County Cricket Club.
Malden was born at Ticehurst in Sussex and educated at Haileybury College whe ...
, also played 24 first-class matches, mainly for
Sussex
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in the early 1920s.Jack Malden CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
Malden died at
Salisbury
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Salisbury is in the southeast of Wil ...
in
Rhodesia
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