George Pinder (15 July 1841 – 15 January 1903) was an English

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er. His birth name was George Pinder Hattersley and he was born in

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. A

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, he played for

from 1867 to 1880, and for the

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from 1867 to 1871. He also umpired in some matches between 1873 and 1880. He was recognised as a fine wicket-keeper, his work to the fast bowlers - at a time when keepers "stood up" (i.e. within arm's reach of the wicket) to fast bowling - being particularly impressive. He had plenty of practice, since

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was in the same Yorkshire side. He had to deal with Emmett's famous "sostenuter", a ball pitching on the leg stump and then breaking sharply towards the off bail. He was renowned for the slickness of his stumpings of batsmen. When

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was stumped off a leg-shooter he exclaimed: "I don't call that stumping; I call it ''shovelling of 'em in!''" He is believed to have been the first keeper to dispense with a long-stop, during a

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match in the mid or late 1870s. The idea came from his captain

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. Pinder was at first reluctant, but the experiment was a success. On another occasion, at

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who was fielding long-stop said: "Nay, George, I've been behind thee for twenty-three overs and had nowt to stop. I'm off where there's summat omethingto do." Pinder died in January 1903 in

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, Yorkshire, aged 61.

Bibliography

* A. A. Thomson, ''Cricket My Happiness'', Sportsmans Book Club edition, 1956, p103-104

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