George Savile (26 April 1847 – 4 September 1904) was an English
amateur
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first-class cricket
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er, who played 16 first-class matches; ten for
Cambridge University
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from 1867 to 1868, five for
Yorkshire from 1867 to 1874,
and one for
Canterbury in
New Zealand in 1871/72.
Born in
Methley
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,
Leeds,
Yorkshire, where his father was
rector
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,
["Mr. George Savile"]
''Cricket'', 23 September 1904, p. 423. Savile was educated at
Rossall School
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(1863 to 1866) and
Magdalene College, Cambridge
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, where he won his cricket
Blue in 1868.
[ He was a right-handed batsman who scored 529 first-class runs at an average of 23.00, with his only century, 105 coming for Cambridge University against the MCC in 1868. He opened the batting for Yorkshire against Lancashire later in the 1868 season and made the top score of the match, 65, when Lancashire in their two innings made only 30 and 34.
During a brief stay in New Zealand he played one first-class match for Canterbury against ]Otago
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in their ninth annual contest in December 1871. He made the highest score of the match, 58, and took four catches keeping wicket.[ T. W. Reese, ''New Zealand Cricket: 1841–1914'', Simpson & Williams, Christchurch, 1927, p. 166.] A local paper said "a finer innings adnever been played in the interprovincial match".[ In 1874, while playing in a match in ]Hertfordshire
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, he hit a ball 135 yards.[
Savile died in September 1904, in Tetbury, Gloucestershire. He had been a complete invalid for several years.][ His uncle, Arthur Savile, played six first-class games in England between 1839 and 1841.
]
References
External links
Cricinfo Profile
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1847 births
1904 deaths
Cricketers from Leeds
Yorkshire cricketers
Cambridge University cricketers
Canterbury cricketers
English cricketers
People educated at Rossall School
Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge