William Philip Harrison (13 November 1885 – 7 September 1964) was an English amateur
first-class cricketer who played for
Kent County Cricket Club
Kent County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Kent. A club representing the county was first founded in 1842 but Ke ...
,
Cambridge University and
Middlesex County Cricket Club
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between 1904 and 1911.
Biography
He was born in
Finchley
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Nearby districts include: Golders Green, Muswell Hill, Friern Barnet, Whetstone, Mill Hill and H ...
(
Middlesex) in 1885 and educated at
Rugby School.
[William Harrison]
CricInfo
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. Retrieved 2017-10-24. He played cricket in the First XI at Rugby and made his first-class cricket debut for Kent in June 1904 against
Nottinghamshire in the
1904 County Championship
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at
Trent Bridge.
[Philip Harrison]
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-10-24. [Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 225–226.]
Available online
at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
Harrison played seven times for Kent in 1904 and 1905 and four times for Cambridge University in 1905 before making his Middlesex debut in the 1906 season.
He
toured New Zealand in 1906/07 with an amateur MCC team,
[England cricket team for New Zealand]
''Feilding Star'', vol. 1, no.125, 1906-11-24. Retrieved 2017-10-24. playing in nine of the 11 first-class matches and a number of minor matches on the tour. He played in both matches against the New Zealand side, although these are not classed as
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.
[ Marylebone Cricket Club in New Zealand 1906–07]
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-10-24. He scored his maiden first-class century in the second match against
Otago
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, 105 in 90 minutes.
Notes by Long Slip
''Otago Witness'', vol. 2761, 1907-02-13, p.60. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
After gaining his cricket Blue in 1907, he played most frequently for Middlesex in 1908 and made 29 first-class appearances for the county in a career that ended in 1911. His highest score, 156 runs, came in his final first-class innings.
References
External links
1885 births
1964 deaths
English cricketers
Kent cricketers
Middlesex cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Cambridge University cricketers
People from Finchley
Cricketers from the London Borough of Barnet
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