A-Z (A1)

A-Z (A1)

October 5, 2017, 12:21 pm
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Here goes then. I’m going to link this straight to Tigger’s website and therefore on to Cricinfo. I will also make use of Cricket Archive and the Thorn/Wynne-Thomas Who’s Who of Cricketers plus any other information. I will welcome any additional information.

Since I am linking this to Tigger’s site I will follow his alphabetical order but add a note for players like Aaqib Javed (often listed under A). For the time being I will list current players, with only basic information. In brackets are the given players’ numbers for all those who have played first-class cricket for Hampshire since entering the County Championship in 1895. Those without numbers are listed as Pre ’95, or as T20 or LA (List A), where they appeared only in the shorter forms.

Abbott, Kyle John: (525) born Natal, SA 18.6.1987. Played for Hampshire in 2014 (9 f/c matches) and 2017 (14 f/c matches).

http://hampshirecricket.net/H_players.htm

Abdy, Anthony John: (Pre ’95 – Amateur) born Cambridge, 24.4.1856, died Switzerland, 4.7.1924. He was brother-in-law of Hampshire’s LG Bonham-Carter. An opening batsman who attended Charterhouse School, Brigadier Abdy was a notable Army cricketer with the Royal Artillery. He had a brother (RB) who played for MCC, while AJ played for Essex v MCC at Brentwood in 1876 (1 & 43*) prior to their first-class status. He played in just one first-class match for Hampshire, v MCC at Lord’s in 1881, scoring 7 and 23. In the 1881 census he was shown as living in Alverstoke, Gosport. He was awarded the CBE in 1918.

http://hampshirecricket.net/H_players.htm

Abercrombie, Cecil Halliday: (182 – Amateur) born India 12.4. 1886, died Battle of Jutland 31.5.1916. He was a middle-order batsman who attended Berkhampstead School. A naval officer he played first-class matches for the combined Navy & Army side from 1910 and having scored a century for them at Lord’s in 1912 he made his Hampshire debut in 1913 and was the first batsman (of six to date) to score a century on first-class debut for the county, making 126 v Oxford University at Southampton. He was not regularly available but later that season in his fourth Championship match at Leyton he came in to bat after Hampshire had followed-on with the score 186-5 – still a deficit of more than 100. He scored 165, sharing a seventh wicket partnership of 325 with George Brown – still a Hampshire record, and it saved the game.

In his 14 matches that year, he scored three centuries, nearly 1,000 runs and was capped but because of naval duties never played for the county again. He was on board HMS Defence at the Battle of Jutland, when it was heavily shelled and blown to pieces

He played rugby union for United Services, Portsmouth, and for Scotland and is one of their players on the honours list below the Memorial Plaque at the Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh.

http://hampshirecricket.net/H_players.htm

Acton James (Pre ’95 – Amateur) born Southampton 11 October 1848, died Reading 22 August 1924. He was a batsman who played in two matches for Hampshire, in 1880 and 1882. In 1880 he top-scored (31) in an innings victory v MCC at the Antelope Ground, Southampton, and in August 1882, scored just 2 & 8 in a defeat v Somerset at Taunton. He is listed on Cricket Archive playing two other matches in Southampton in the same period.

http://hampshirecricket.net/H_players.htm

 

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