James King (3 May 1869 – 8 March 1948) 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. King was a right-handed batsman whose bowling style is unknown. He was born at Lutterworth,

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...

. King made his debut for

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in the counties first

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match against

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in 1895, a match in which he became the first Staffordshire batsman to make a half century in

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. He made seven further Minor Counties Championship appearances for Staffordshire, the last of which came against Northumberland in 1896. Three years later he made his first-class debut for

against Yorkshire at Grace Road in the

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. He made six further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against

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at The Oval in the

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. In his seven matches, he scored a total of 83 runs at an average of 10.37, with a high score of 24 not out. With the ball, he took 2 wickets at a

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of 73.00. He died at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire on 8 March 1948. His son John King played first-class cricket, while his brother, also called John King, played Test cricket for England.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:King, James 1869 births 1948 deaths People from Lutterworth Cricketers from Leicestershire English cricketers Staffordshire cricketers Leicestershire cricketers