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90 relations: A. A. Thomson, All-rounder, Alonzo Drake, Andrew Stoddart, Archie MacLaren, Aubrey Faulkner, Batting order (cricket), BBC Books, Benefit (sports), Bernard Bosanquet (cricketer), Bill Bowes, Bobby Peel, Bowled, Bowling average, Bradford Premier League, C. B. Fry, Charlie Townsend, Colin Blythe, County Championship, Cricket, Dictionary of National Biography, Double (cricket), Duck (cricket), E. W. Swanton, Elland, England cricket team, English cricket team in Australia in 1907–08, Eton College, Eton v Harrow, Europeans cricket team, First-class cricket, Follow-on, Frank Laver, Franklyn Stephenson, Fred Tate, Gentlemen v Players, George Macaulay, Gilbert Jessop, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, Googly, Headingley Cricket Ground, Huddersfield, Jim Kilburn, Johnny Tyldesley, Kent County Cricket Club, Kirkheaton, Lancashire County Cricket Club, Leg side, Leg theory, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, ..., Len Braund, Len Hutton, Lindley, Huddersfield, Lord's, Major Booth, Marsh, Huddersfield, Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, Marylebone Cricket Club, Middlesex County Cricket Club, Mirfield, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club, Not out, Over (cricket), Pelham Warner, Rugby football, Rugby union positions, Sammy Woods, Scarborough Festival, Schofield Haigh, Somerset County Cricket Club, South African cricket team in England in 1907, Stanley Jackson, Sticky wicket, Sussex County Cricket Club, Swing bowling, Sydney Pardon, Ted Wainwright, Test cricket, The Oval, The Times, Tom Hayward, Twickenham, Victor Trumper, W. G. Grace, Wilfred Rhodes, Wisden Cricketers of the Year, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Worcestershire County Cricket Club, Yorkshire, Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Expand index (40 more) »
A. A. Thomson
Arthur Alexander Thomson, MBE (7 April 1894 at Harrogate, Yorkshire – 2 June 1968 near Lord's in London) was an English writer best known for his books on cricket, for which he used the byline "AA Thomson".
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All-rounder
An all-rounder is a cricketer who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling.
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Alonzo Drake
Alonzo Robson Drake (16 April 1884 – 14 February 1919) was an English footballer and first-class cricketer.
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Andrew Stoddart
Andrew Ernest Stoddart (11 March 1863 – 4 April 1915) was a sportsman who played international cricket for England, and rugby union for England and the British Isles.
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Archie MacLaren
Archibald Campbell MacLaren (1 December 1871 – 17 November 1944) was an English cricketer who captained the England cricket team at various times between 1898 and 1909.
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Aubrey Faulkner
George Aubrey Faulkner (17 December 1881 – 10 September 1930) was a leading South African cricketer for two decades.
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Batting order (cricket)
In cricket, the batting order is the sequence in which batsmen play through their team's innings, there always being two batsmen taking part at any one time.
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BBC Books
BBC Books (also formerly known as BBC Publishing) is an imprint majority owned and managed by Penguin Random House through its Ebury Publishing division.
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Benefit (sports)
A benefit is a match or season of activities granted by a sporting body to a loyal sportsman to boost their income before retirement.
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Bernard Bosanquet (cricketer)
Bernard James Tindal Bosanquet (13 October 1877 – 12 October 1936) was an English cricketer best known for inventing the googly, a delivery designed to deceive the batsman.
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Bill Bowes
William Eric Bowes (25 July 1908 – 4 September 1987) was an English professional cricketer active from 1929 to 1947 who played in 372 first-class matches as a right arm fast bowler and a right-handed tail end batsman.
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Bobby Peel
Robert Peel (12 February 1857 – 12 August 1941) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Yorkshire between 1883 and 1897.
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Bowled
Bowled is a method of dismissing a batsman in the sport of cricket.
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Bowling average
The bowling average is one of a number of statistics used to compare bowlers in the sport of cricket.
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Bradford Premier League
The Bradford Premier League (currently known as the All Rounder Cricket Bradford Premier League for sponsorship reasons) is an amateur cricket competition centred in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
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C. B. Fry
Charles Burgess Fry, known as C. B. Fry (25 April 1872 – 7 September 1956), was an English sportsman, politician, diplomat, academic, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer.
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Charlie Townsend
Charles Lucas Townsend (7 November 1876 – 17 October 1958) was a Gloucestershire cricketer.
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Colin Blythe
Colin Blythe (30 May 1879 – 8 November 1917), also known as Charlie Blythe, was an English first-class cricketer, active from 1899 to 1914.
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County Championship
The County Championship, currently known as the Specsavers County Championship for sponsorship reasons, is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales and is organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).
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Dictionary of National Biography
The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.
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Double (cricket)
A cricketer is said to achieve the double if he scores a thousand or more runs and also takes a hundred or more wickets in first-class matches during the course of a single season.
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Duck (cricket)
In cricket, a duck is a batsman's dismissal for a score of zero.
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E. W. Swanton
Ernest William Swanton (11 February 1907 – 22 January 2000) was an English journalist and author, chiefly known for being a cricket writer and commentator under his initials, E. W. Swanton.
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Elland
Elland is a market town in Calderdale, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.
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England cricket team
The England cricket team represents England and Wales (and, until 1992, also Scotland) in international cricket.
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English cricket team in Australia in 1907–08
The English cricket team in Australia in 1907–08 lost the Test series, and with it the Ashes, 4–1.
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Eton College
Eton College is an English independent boarding school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, near Windsor.
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Eton v Harrow
The Eton v Harrow cricket match is an annual match between Eton College and Harrow School.
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Europeans cricket team
The Europeans cricket team was an Indian first-class cricket team which took part in the annual Bombay tournament.
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First-class cricket
First-class cricket is an official classification of the highest-standard international or domestic matches in the sport of cricket.
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Follow-on
In cricket, the follow-on is where a team batting second is forced to take its second innings immediately after its first, after having failed to reach close enough to the score achieved by the team who batted first (in that team's first innings).
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Frank Laver
Frank Jonas Laver (7 December 1869 – 24 September 1919) was an Australian cricketer.
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Franklyn Stephenson
Franklyn DaCosta Stephenson (born 8 April 1959) is a former cricketer who had a first-class career for teams in four continents.
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Fred Tate
Frederick William Tate (24 July 1867 – 24 February 1943) was an English cricketer who played in one Test in 1902.
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Gentlemen v Players
Gentlemen v Players was a first-class cricket match generally held in England twice or more a year for well over a century.
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George Macaulay
George Gibson Macaulay (7 December 1897 – 13 December 1940) was a professional English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1920 and 1935.
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Gilbert Jessop
Gilbert Laird Jessop (19 May 1874 – 11 May 1955) was an English cricket player, often reckoned to have been the fastest run-scorer cricket has ever known.
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Gloucestershire County Cricket Club
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.
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Googly
In cricket, a googly is a type of deceptive delivery bowled by a right-arm leg spin bowler.
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Headingley Cricket Ground
Headingley Cricket Ground (usually shortened to Headingley) is a cricket ground in Headingley Stadium complex in Leeds, England.
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Huddersfield
Huddersfield is a large market town in West Yorkshire, England.
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Jim Kilburn
James Maurice Kilburn (8 July 1909 – 28 August 1993) was a British sports journalist who wrote for the Yorkshire Post between 1934 and 1976.
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Johnny Tyldesley
John Thomas Tyldesley (22 November 1873 – 27 November 1930) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire and Test cricket for England.
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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.
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Kirkheaton
Kirkheaton is a village north east of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England with a population of 4,209 together with Upper Heaton.
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Lancashire County Cricket Club
Lancashire Cricket Club, one of eighteen first-class county clubs in the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales, represents the historic county of Lancashire.
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Leg side
The leg side, or on side, is defined to be a particular half of the field used to play the sport of cricket.
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Leg theory
Leg theory is a bowling tactic in the sport of cricket.
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Leicestershire County Cricket Club
Leicestershire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.
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Len Braund
Leonard Charles Braund (18 October 1875 – 23 December 1955) was a cricketer who played for Surrey, Somerset and England.
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Len Hutton
Sir Leonard Hutton (23 June 1916 – 6 September 1990) was an English cricketer who played as an opening batsman for Yorkshire from 1934 to 1955 and for England in 79 Test matches between 1937 and 1955.
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Lindley, Huddersfield
Lindley is a suburb of Huddersfield, within the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.
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Lord's
Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known simply as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London.
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Major Booth
This page is about the English cricketer.
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Marsh, Huddersfield
Marsh is a suburb of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England that is situated west of the town centre.
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Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke
Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke (16 August 1860 – 10 October 1938), generally known as Lord Hawke, was an English amateur cricketer active from 1881 to 1911 who played for Yorkshire and England.
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Marylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club, generally known as the 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, England.
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Middlesex County Cricket Club
Middlesex County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.
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Mirfield
Mirfield is a small town and civil parish in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.
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Northamptonshire County Cricket Club
Northamptonshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.
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Not out
In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings.
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Over (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, an over consists of six consecutive balls bowled by a single bowler from one end of a cricket pitch to the batsman at the other end.
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Pelham Warner
Sir Pelham Francis Warner, (2 October 1873 – 30 January 1963), affectionately and better known as Plum Warner or "the Grand Old Man" of English cricket, was a Test cricketer and cricket administrator.
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Rugby football
Rugby football refers to the team sports rugby league and rugby union.
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Rugby union positions
In the game of rugby union, there are 15 players on each team, comprising eight forwards (numbered 1–8) and seven backs (numbered 9–15).
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Sammy Woods
Samuel Moses James Woods (13 April 1867 – 30 April 1931) was an Australian sportsman who represented both Australia and England at Test cricket, and appeared thirteen times for England at rugby union, including five times as captain.
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Scarborough Festival
The Scarborough Festival is an end of season series of cricket matches featuring Yorkshire County Cricket Club which has been held in Scarborough, on the east coast of Yorkshire, since 1876.
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Schofield Haigh
Schofield Haigh (19 March 1871 – 27 February 1921) was a Yorkshire and England cricketer.
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Somerset County Cricket Club
Somerset County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.
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South African cricket team in England in 1907
The South African national cricket team toured England during the 1907 cricket season, playing three Tests and twenty four first-class matches.
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Stanley Jackson
Sir Francis Stanley Jackson Jackson's obituary in the 1948 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
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Sticky wicket
A sticky wicket (or sticky dog, or glue pot) is a metaphor used to describe a difficult circumstance.
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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.
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Swing bowling
Swing bowling is a technique used for bowling in the sport of cricket.
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Sydney Pardon
Sydney Herbert Pardon (23 September 1855 – 20 November 1925) was a sports journalist who was the editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 35 editions, from 1891 until his death.
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Ted Wainwright
Ted Wainwright (8 April 1865 – 28 October 1919) was an English first-class cricketer, who played in 352 first-class matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1888 and 1902.
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Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket and is considered its highest standard.
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The Oval
The Oval, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Kia Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth, South London.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.
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Tom Hayward
Thomas Walter Hayward (29 March 1871 – 19 July 1939) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Surrey and England between the 1890s and the outbreak of World War I. He was primarily an opening batsman, noted especially for the quality of his off-drive.
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Twickenham
Twickenham is a suburban area and town in Greater London, lying on the River Thames 10.2 miles west-southwest of the centre of London.
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Victor Trumper
Victor Thomas Trumper (2 November 1877 – 28 June 1915) was an Australian cricketer known as the most stylish and versatile batsman of the Golden Age of cricket, capable of playing match-winning innings on wet wickets his contemporaries found unplayable.
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W. G. Grace
William Gilbert "W.
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Wilfred Rhodes
Wilfred Rhodes (29 October 1877 – 8 July 1973) was an English professional cricketer who played 58 Test matches for England between 1899 and 1930.
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Wisden Cricketers of the Year
The Wisden Cricketers of the Year are cricketers selected for the honour by the annual publication Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, based primarily on their "influence on the previous English season".
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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (or simply Wisden or colloquially "the Bible of Cricket") is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom.
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Worcestershire County Cricket Club
Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.
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Yorkshire
Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.
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Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Yorkshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.
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