Leslie Horace William Crockwell (1887 – 29 April 1961) was an English

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er. He was born in

Newton Abbot Newton Abbot is a market town and civil parish on the River Teign in the Teignbridge District of Devon, England. Its 2011 population of 24,029 was estimated to reach 26,655 in 2019. It grew rapidly in the Victorian era as the home of the So ...

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to auctioneer George and Louisa Crockwell. Crockwell first played for

in the 1908 Minor Counties Championship against

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. From 1908 to 1914, he played infrequently for Devon, representing them in just 5 Championship matches. He played his final Championship match against Monmouthshire. Crockwell later made a single first-class appearance for the Europeans (India) against the

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in 1920. In the Europeans first-innings he scored 19 runs before being dismissed by M.B. Vatcha and in their second-innings he was dismissed for a

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by P.H. Daruwala. He also played cricket for the Shanghai Cricket Club, playing two matches against

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in 1911 and 1912. Neither matches held first-class status.

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