George Edward Hunt (30 September 1896 – 22 January 1959) 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 who played over 200 matches for

Somerset County Cricket Club Somerset County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Somerset. Founded in 1875, Somerset was initially regarded as a minor ...

as a bowling all-rounder. He scored nearly 5,000 first-class runs including one century and fifteen half-centuries, and took 386 wickets at a

bowling average In cricket, a player's bowling average is the number of runs they have conceded per wicket taken. The lower the bowling average is, the better the bowler is performing. It is one of a number of statistics used to compare bowlers, commonly use ...

of 32.87 through a ten-year career from 1921 to 1931. Hunt was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler often used as first-change. He was also a regular close-to-the-wicket fielder.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hunt, George E English cricketers Somerset cricketers Cricketers from Somerset 1896 births 1959 deaths