Robert Moorhouse (7 September 1866 – 7 January 1921) was an English

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er, who played 206 matches for

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between 1888 and 1899. He also played first-class cricket for the

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(MCC) (1891-1900) and an XI of Yorkshire (1894). He was born in

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. In 217 first-class games overall, he scored 5,337 runs at 18.72 on the difficult pitches of the time. He recorded three centuries, with his best a knock of 113 against

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. His other tons came at the expense of MCC (105) and

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(102*). He took 49 wickets with his right arm medium pace, at a cost of 28.08 apiece, with his best bowling return of 4 for 40 coming against

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whilst playing for the MCC. He was also on the MCC groundstaff at one time. A short plucky man, Moorhouse had the reputation of being a fine cover-point fielder. A product of Armitage Bridge C.C. in the Huddersfield League, Moorhouse was often on the fringes of the Yorkshire side, and sometimes appeared in preference to a better batsman due to his fielding ability. Subsequently he was coach at

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. His brother,

Fred Moorhouse Fred Moorhouse (25 March 1880 – 7 April 1933) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket in 117 matches for Warwickshire between 1900 and 1908. He was born at Berry Brow, Huddersfield, Yorkshire and died at Dudley, then in Worcest ...

, played 117 games for Warwickshire. Moorhouse died in January 1921 in Taylor Hill,

, at the age of 54.

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* 1866 births 1921 deaths Yorkshire cricketers Cricketers from Huddersfield English cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers English cricketers of 1864 to 1889 English cricketers of 1890 to 1918 {{england-cricket-bio-1860s-stub