William Pain Beecham (1799 – 5 May 1869) 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. Beecham made a single

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appearance for

Sussex County Cricket Club Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Sussex. Its limited overs team is called the Sussex Sharks. The c ...

against the

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at the

East Sussex Cricket Ground East Sussex Cricket Ground was a cricket ground in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. The ground was located at the site of a racecourse which had moved after 1826 from the Bulverhythe Salts. It was during its time regarded as one of the finest rac ...

in 1857. He was aged 57 or 58 when he made his only first-class appearance. In the match, Beecham was run out for a single run in Sussex's first-innings, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 2 runs by

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. Sussex won the match by 70 runs. He died at

St Leonards-on-Sea St Leonards-on-Sea (commonly known as St Leonards) is a town and seaside resort in the Borough of Hastings in East Sussex, England. It has been part of the borough since the late 19th century and lies to the west of central Hastings. The origina ...

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on 5 May 1869.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Beecham, William 1799 births 1869 deaths English cricketers Sussex cricketers Place of birth missing