George Hector Cook Beet (30 May 1904 – 21 August 1949) 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 first-class cricket for
Derbyshire
Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...
in 1928 and in 1932 and for
Marylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's Cricket Ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London. The club was formerly the governing body of cricket retaining considerable global influence ...
in 1928 and between 1933 and 1938.
Beet was born at
Somercotes
Somercotes is a village and civil parish in the district of Amber Valley in the English county of Derbyshire, close to the border with Nottinghamshire. It is a former mining village and was once surrounded by more than five pits. The village has ...
, the son of
George Beet who had kept wicket for Derbyshire before the First World War. Beet was playing for MCC in 1926 and also played for Young Professionals that year. He made his first-class debut appearance for
Derbyshire in the 1928 season when he acted as a stand-in wicket-keeper against Kent and achieved three catches and a stumping. He also kept wicket for MCC against Kent later in the season. He re-appeared for Derbyshire in the
1932 season in four matches as a batsman rather than a wicket-keeper. He played in the middle-order and generally his score was in double figures. He achieved his best performance for Derbyshire with a score of 35 not out. He played once for Derbyshire second XI in 1933.
Beet continued playing first for Marylebone Cricket Club in first-class and other games. He played one first-class match in 1933, two in 1934, one in 1936 and one in 1938. He kept wicket in all except for one of the matches in 1934.
Beet was a right-handed batsman who played 19 innings in 11 first-class matches with an average of 16.29 and a top score of 61. He was an occasional wicket keeper and took 14 catches and 2 stumpings.
George Beet at Cricket Archive
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Beet was an umpire at Lord's Cricket Ground in 1947 when he umpired mainly schools matches but also one first-class match.
Beet died at Somercotes at the age of 45. His nephew Gordon Beet
Gordon Albert Beet (5 May 1939 – 19 January 1994) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire County Cricket Club between 1956 and 1961.
Beet was born at Heanor, Derbyshire. He started representing Derbyshire in th ...
was also a Derbyshire cricketer.
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1904 births
1949 deaths
English cricketers
Derbyshire cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
People from Somercotes
Cricketers from Derbyshire