John James Bourne (2 November 1872 – 23 December 1952) 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 who played
first-class cricket for
Derbyshire in 1898.
Bourne was born at
Moira, Leicestershire, the son of Thomas Bourne, a colliery manager and his wife Rose. They lived at
Church Gresley where he was a colliery clerk in 1891.
Bourne, with fellow one-timer
William Prince, played one match for Derbyshire in the
1898 season which was against
Nottinghamshire in July. He was a left-arm medium-pace bowler and took three wickets in over 40 overs during the match. As a left-handed batsman, he batted for just a single innings in the tailend to make 6 runs.
John Bourne at Cricket Archive
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Bourne died in Burton-on-Trent at the age of 80.
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1872 births
1952 deaths
English cricketers
Derbyshire cricketers
People from North West Leicestershire District
Cricketers from Leicestershire
People from Church Gresley
Cricketers from Derbyshire