Joseph William Threapleton (20 July 1857 – 30 July 1918) was an English

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officia ...

er, who played one match for

Yorkshire County Cricket Club Yorkshire County Cricket Club is one of 18 first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Yorkshire. Yorkshire are the most successful team in English cricketing hi ...

, against Sussex, at

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in 1881. Born in

Pudsey Pudsey is a market town in the City of Leeds Borough in West Yorkshire, England. It is located midway between Bradford city centre and Leeds city centre. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it has a population of 22,408. History ...

Yorkshire Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other English counties, functions have ...

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, Threapleton was a

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, who took two catches and completed one

stumping Stumped is a method of dismissing a batsman in cricket, which involves the wicket-keeper putting down the wicket while the batsman is out of his ground. (The batsman leaves his ground when he has moved down the pitch beyond the popping crease ...

, plus scored an unbeaten eight in his only innings. Yorkshire won the match by nine wickets. Threapleton was engaged by the Bradford C.C. in the 1880s and, from 1890 until 1894, he was with Harrogate C.C.. He kept wicket regularly for the Yorkshire Second XI. He was a boot maker by trade. He died in July 1918 in Pudsey.

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1857 births 1918 deaths Yorkshire cricketers Cricketers from Pudsey English cricketers English cricketers of 1864 to 1889 {{england-cricket-bio-1850s-stub