Horace Orlando Bloomfield (15 July 1891 – 31 May 1973) 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. He played four first-class matches for

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between 1921 and 1922, scoring an unbeaten 107 on debut against Northamptonshire. In 1909 at the

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Bloomfield had a successful season with the bat. In 1927 he played for a Lloyds Bank XI. Bloomfield married Muriel Maude Holland, daughter of Surrey cricketer, Fred Holland, at

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in 1922.

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* 1891 births 1973 deaths English cricketers Surrey cricketers People from Brixton Sportspeople from the London Borough of Lambeth Cricketers from Greater London {{England-cricket-bio-1890s-stub

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