Frank de Lisle Solbé (1 June 1871 – 12 January 1933) was an English international
hockey player, who also played
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 ...
.
[Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 497–498.]
Available online
at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
Born in
Chefoo, China, Solbé was educated at
Dulwich College, where he played for the school's cricket eleven in 1887 and 1888.
Described by the ''
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' as being "a free and attractive batsman",
he nonetheless struggled at
first-class level, making occasional appearances for
Kent County Cricket Club
Kent County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Kent. A club representing the county was first founded in 1842 but Ke ...
and
Marylebone Cricket Club.
In 1897, Solbé made his first appearance for the
England national field hockey team, and went on to play for them twice more in 1899 and once in 1900.
He scored three times in 1899; once against
Ireland and twice against Wales.
He died in
Bromley in 1933, aged 61.
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1871 births
1933 deaths
English cricketers
English male field hockey players
Kent cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
People educated at Dulwich College
British expatriates in China