Oswald Burton (21 August 1874 – 4 July 1944) 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 1901 and 1905.
Burton was born at
Gorton,
Manchester. He made his debut for Derbyshire in a match against
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in the
1901 season. He was not out for 9 in both innings and took 2 wickets. He next appeared in the
1905 season against
Lancashire when he again took 2 wickets but did not bat in either innings. Against
Nottinghamshire he was not out in both innings and took one wicket.
Burton was a right-arm medium-fast bowler and in three first-class matches took five wickets at an average of 31.20 with a best performance of 2 for 44. He was a right-hand batsman and played four innings in three first-class matches without being out in any of them and with a top score of 9 not out.
Oswald Burton at Cricket Archive
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Burton died at Kingsdown, Bristol at the age of 69.
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1874 births
1944 deaths
Derbyshire cricketers
English cricketers
People from Gorton