Percy Elmo Henderson (1879 – 16 January 1934) was a
Canadian first-class
cricket
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er.
Henderson was born in Canada in 1879. A member of the
Toronto Cricket Club
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, he toured England in 1910 with the Toronto I Zingari.
He later made a single appearance in
first-class cricket for a combined
Canada and United States of America cricket team against the touring
Australians at
Philadelphia in 1913. Playing as a
wicket-keeper, he scored he scored 2 runs in the Canada/United States first innings before being dismissed by
Arthur Mailey, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 7 runs by
Sid Emery, with the Australians winning the match by 409 runs.
He toured England again in 1922, with a team headed by Norman Seagram,
President of the Toronto Cricket Club. Henderson died at Toronto in January 1934, aged 55.
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1879 births
1934 deaths
Canadian cricketers
Canada and United States of America cricketers