A-Z (E4)

A-Z (E4)

December 15, 2017, 12:14 pm
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OK here comes the first group from that bunch of people called Evans. I ain’t getting into the debate about apostrophes and plurals any more, but there is a book about the little buggers, written by copywriter Simon Griffin, which I’ve always found very helpful when working with students. Check it out online and you’ll understand why I decline to give you the title on this family show:

Evans, Sir Alfred Englefield (196 – Amateur) born South Africa 30.1.1884, died 29.12.1944. He was once recorded as having died in Dorset, but subsequently over the north Atlantic after an aeroplane from Canada went missing.

He was a right-arm medium pace bowler who played most of his first-class cricket for the Royal Navy, in which service he rose to the rank of Vice-Admiral. He came from a cricketing family, including two brothers, DM (Hampshire) & WHB (Hampshire & Worcestershire), an uncle AH (Hampshire & Somerset) and two cousins, AJ (Hampshire, Kent & England) and R duB (Hampshire). Their details follow.

AE Evans played in five first-class matches for Hampshire in 1919 and 1920 when already in his mid-thirties – four of those matches were in 1919 when all first-class county games took place over two days. He took 14 wickets at 29.07 including a best of 4-74 v Surrey at the Oval against whom he also made his top score for the county, 47 at Southampton, both in 1919. His final match for Hampshire was v Middlesex at Lord’s in 1920 and his final first-class match came five years later on the same ground for the Royal Navy v the Army.

Evans, Alfred Henry (Pre ’95 – Amateur) born India 14.6.1858, died Devon 26.3.1934. He was a good pace bowler and useful lower-order batsman, who won his Oxford University ‘blue’ in four years 1878-1881, captaining them in the last year, before playing six first-class matches for Somerset (1882-1884) and then three matches for Hampshire in 1885 before they lost their first-class status. He was at that time, a master at Winchester College.

In all first class cricket, his 44 matches brought 908 runs at 13.75, with three half-centuries, and his pace bowling, 204 wickets at 16.08; 20 times taking five wickets in an innings, including 9-59 for an England XI v Richard Daft’s American XI. His best bowling for Hampshire was 4-47 and his highest score 33, both v Sussex at Southampton, a match that Hampshire won. He played briefly for Hampshire in non first-class matches after 1885, and also for MCC and I Zingari. At Oxford, he also won his rugby ‘blue’.

Evans, Alfred John (145 – Amateur) born Highclere, Hampshire 1.5.1889, died London 18.9.1960. Another of the Evans family, he was a good all-round cricketer who captained Oxford University, and played in seven matches. for Hampshire between 1908-1920,  He then played for Kent in 36 matches from 1921-1928 and in his first year with them he appeared in his one Test Match, v Australia, and was dismissed twice by McDonald, scoring 4 & 14. For Hampshire, he scored two half centuries in a total of 307 runs at an average 27.90, and he took five wickets. During the war, he won fame for his escape exploits as a German prisoner of war.

Evans, Bertram Sutton (74 – Amateur) born Charterhouse, Surrey 17.12.1872, died Paris 2.3.1919. He is not one of the Evans family described here. He played in just five matches for Hampshire from 1900-1909, his appearances limited by his naval career. He did not bowl and scored just 67 runs at 11.16, with a highest score of 18*.

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