George Millyard (12 November 1814 – 20 July 1848) was an English professional

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er who played

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

from 1835 to 1842. He was a cousin of his Sussex colleagues Jem and

William Broadbridge William Broadbridge (1 October 1790 – 19 April 1860) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1817 to 1830. He was a brother of Jem Broadbridge and a cousin of George Millyard. A right-handed batsman and occa ...

. A left-handed

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, occasional

wicket-keeper The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being watchful of the batsman and ready to take a catch, stump the batsman out and run out a batsman when occasion arises. Th ...

and right arm medium pace

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bowler who was mainly associated with

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

, he made 50 known appearances in first-class matches.CricketArchive
Retrieved on 3 December 2008. He was playing for Sussex when the county club was founded in 1839. He represented the Players in the

Gentlemen v Players Gentlemen v Players was a long-running series of English first-class cricket matches. Two matches were played in 1806, but the fixture was not played again until 1819. It became an annual event, usually played at least twice each season, exc ...

series and the

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in the

North v. South The North of England and South of England cricket teams appeared in first-class cricket between the 1836 and 1961 seasons, most often in matches against each other but also individually in games against touring teams, Marylebone Cricket Club (M ...

series.

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