Thomas Allchurch (24 April 1883 – 23 October 1934) 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 three first-class games for

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in 1919 and 1920. He made his first-class debut in late June 1919 against

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at New Road, and performed well, scoring 51 (his only fifty) and taking 4/76 in the first innings. The following month, also at New Road, he had an unsuccessful time (5 and 7; 23-2-114-1) in a crushing innings-and-203-run defeat against the Australian Imperial Forces. Finally, in August 1920 he played against

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. Although Worcestershire again lost by an innings, Allchurch's 5/70 was the best bowling return of his short career.

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