Fred Moorhouse (25 March 1880 – 7 April 1933) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket in 117 matches for Warwickshire County Cricket Club, Warwickshire between 1900 and 1908.
He was born at Berry Brow, Huddersfield, Yorkshire and died at Dudley, then in Worcestershire, now in West Midlands (county), West Midlands.
The brother of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club, Yorkshire cricketer Robert Moorhouse, Fred Moorhouse was a amateur status in first-class cricket, professional right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. Having played in single match in 1900 and a few games in 1901, all without achieving any success, Moorhouse became a regular player for Warwickshire over the next six seasons.
His best season was 1903 when he scored 336 runs at an batting average (cricket), average of 21 runs per innings and took 55 wickets at the low bowling average, average of 15.81. ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' noted his potential: "He must be reckoned one of the finest all-round players in Warwickshire," it wrote. That season saw his best bowling performance when he took seven second-innings Yorkshire wickets for 53 runs, and 11 for 114 in the match at The Circle, Kingston upon Hull, Hull. He had a further 10-wicket match in 1907 against Worcestershire County Cricket Club, Worcestershire, with figures of six for 43 and four for 88. His batting did not develop and his highest innings came in 1904 when he scored 75 against London County Cricket Club, London County.
With the recovery from injury of Frank Field (cricketer, born 1874), Frank Field and the emergence of Frank Foster (cricketer), Frank Foster in 1908, Moorhouse was unable to retain his place in the 1908 season and he left first-class cricket at the end of the season.
He played Minor Counties cricket for Cheshire County Cricket Club, Cheshire in 1910 and 1911.
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1880 births
1933 deaths
English cricketers
Warwickshire cricketers
Cheshire cricketers