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unusual facts about first class cricket



Auckland cricket team

The Auckland domestic cricket team represent the Auckland region and are one of six New Zealand domestic first class cricket teams.

Denis Blundell

Blundell was a talented cricketer, and opened the bowling in first class cricket for Cambridge University as well as for MCC and Wellington.

Francis Birley

He did however play for Lancashire, making his first appearance in a first class match against Hampshire on 21 July 1870 when he took three wickets, helping Lancashire to win by ten wickets.

Jock Tait

A right-hand bat and occasional right-arm off break bowler, Tait played forty four first class cricket matches for Glamorgan between 1921 and 1926, having played minor county cricket for the club since 1911.

Johan van der Wath

The following year he made his first class debut but only played one more match after that before joining Free State for the beginning of the 1997 South African season.

Saleh Ahmed

Mohammad Saleh Ahmed (born on 2 February 1969 in Faridpur, Dacca (now Dhaka) is a First class and List A cricketer from Bangladesh.

South Western Districts cricket team

South Western Districts are a South African first class cricket team based in the Western Cape city of Oudtshoorn, and representing approximately the eastern half of Western Cape province.


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Alexander Cadell

Cadell's great-uncle Vernon Royle represented Lancashire, Oxford University and the Marylebone Cricket Club in first-class cricket.

Ben Hutton

He came from cricketing stock as the elder son of the cricketer Richard Hutton and his grandfathers Sir Leonard Hutton and Ben Brocklehurst also played first-class cricket.

Bruce Stewart

Bruce Hylton-Stewart (1891–1972), played first-class cricket for Somerset and Cambridge University between 1912 and 1914

C. B. Fry

His son, Stephen Fry, his grandson, Charles Fry, and his cousin, Kenneth Fry (1883–1949), all played first-class cricket.

Charles Beckett

Charles Andrew Beckett (born 7 February 1794 in Gravesend, Kent; died 1838 in Chard, Somerset) was an English first-class cricketer associated with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) who was active in the 1810s.

Charles Henry Hylton Stewart

His second son, Bruce Hylton-Stewart, played first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club and appears generally to have used a hyphen in his surname.

Charles Kendle

Kendle's nephew William Kendle also played first-class cricket for Hampshire, representing the club in five first-class matches.

Charles Wreford-Brown

His younger brother, Oswald (who died during the first World War in 1916) and son Anthony would, like him, also play for first-class cricket but none were stand-outs with the willow.

Clarence Park

Clarence Park, Weston-super-Mare, public park in Somerset town formerly used as first-class cricket venue

Colin Guest

He scored 26 not out and 74 (his highest first-class score) in his first game for Western Australia and made some other useful contributions with the bat, but his bowling lacked its former penetration, and with strong competition for pace-bowling places in the state side from McKenzie, Sam Gannon, Laurie Mayne, Ian Brayshaw and Jim Hubble, he played no further first-class cricket after that season.

Crystal Palace Park Cricket Ground

Ten years would pass before first-class cricket returned to Crystal Palace, when in 1880 the Players played the Australians during their tour of England.

Dave Orchard

His father, Kenneth Orchard and uncle Eric Orchard played first-class cricket for Natal, and his son Justin Orchard for Free State.

Denis Cousins

Cousins' son, Darren, played first-class cricket, while his uncle, Harold, played Minor Counties Cricket for Cambridgeshire.

Ernest Greswell

Ernest Arthur Greswell, born at Cuddalore, Madras, India on 8 June 1885 and died at Minehead, Somerset, England on 15 January 1962, played first-class cricket for Somerset in 12 matches between 1903 and 1910.

Francis Whitfeld

His brother, Herbert, also played first-class cricket for the county, as well as being a two-time FA Cup winner with the Old Etonians.

George Knew junior

His father, George Knew senior, also played first-class cricket for Leicestershire.

George Lohmann

Returning to the British Cape Colony to maintain his health, Lohmann played no more first-class cricket until February, yet on the matting wickets in three "Tests" (the England eleven was no more than England "A" of today), Lohmann was so unplayable that he took 35 wickets for the remarkable average of just 5.80 runs each.

George Longman

Longman's son Henry played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, Surrey, Middlesex and the Marylebone Cricket Club.

George Whitfeld

His uncle, Herbert, also played first-class cricket for Sussex, as well as being a two-time FA Cup winner with the Old Etonians.

Gil Langley

Langley played his last Test match against India at Eden Gardens, Kolkata in November 1956 and retired from first class cricket a month later after scoring a century for South Australia against New South Wales at the Adelaide Oval.

Goodrick

Garney Goodrick (1895–1929), Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for Tasmania and Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League

Halstead

Other players to have played both first class cricket and for the club include former Essex and Leicestershire man Darren Robinson, international coach Richard Pybus and New Zealand U-19 and Canterbury bowler Matt Henry.

Hamish Barton

A left-handed batsman, and right-arm off break, Barton's father Peter and his uncle Hugh also played first class cricket in New Zealand.

Harry Frei

It wasn't until the age of 31 that he made his first-class cricket debut, picked to play against a Bob Willis led England XI.

Jack Badcock

Born in Exton, in the north of Tasmania near Deloraine, Badcock was the second youngest player for Tasmania in first-class cricket, making his debut in 1929-30 at the age of 15.

John Crawley

Crawley announced on 8 August 2009 that at the end of the 2009 County Championship he would be retiring from all forms of first-class cricket, stating he did not want to stand in the way of emerging talent at Hampshire.

John Deedes

As well as playing first-class cricket, William was a Conservative Party politician who was a Member of Parliament for East Kent from 1845–1857 and 1857–1862 following the resignation from the House of Commons of Sir Edward Dering who had defeated Deedes at the 1857 election.

Joseph McMaster

Joseph Emile Patrick McMaster (16 March 1861 in County Down, Ireland – 7 June 1929 in London) is notable as having probably the oddest and shortest first-class cricket career of all-time.

Ken Higgs

After two years in the Lancashire League, the Leicestershire captain, Ray Illingworth called Higgs out of first-class cricket retirement because of Graham McKenzie's expected unavailability with the 1972 Australians.

Ken Kinnersley

Kenneth Charles Kinnersley, born at Apia, Upolu, Samoa on 13 March 1914 and died at Clifton, Bristol on 30 June 1984, played first-class cricket for Somerset in 10 matches in the 1930s.

Lavinia Byrne

Her great-uncle, J. F. Byrne, captained Warwickshire in first-class cricket and was full back of the England rugby union team

Mumtaz Habib

first-class debut in England for Durham UCCE against Nottinghamshire, making him the first Afghan to play first-class cricket in England, and the second Afghan born cricketer after Salim Durani to play first-class cricket.

Neil Folland

His brother, Nick Folland, played first-class cricket for Somerset as well as List A and Minor Counties cricket for Devon.

Neil Stovold

His uncle, Martin, played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire.

Nigel Briers

But a knee injury, followed by an operation, left him as a spectator as the county, under new captain James Whitaker, took their second Championship title in 1996, and he never played first-class cricket again.

Oliver Hutton

His grandfathers Ben Brocklehurst, Sir Leonard Hutton, father Richard Hutton, brother Ben Hutton, cousin Simon Dennis and great-uncle Frank Dennis have all played in first-class cricket.

Oswald Samson

In-between his university appearances, Samson had hit the only century of his first-class cricket career for Somerset in the match against Gloucestershire at Gloucester; the century, 105, came after Gloucestershire had been dismissed for just 61, and Beaumont Cranfield and Len Braund bowled unchanged through the two Gloucestershire innings.

Pasty Harris

Michael John "Pasty" Harris (born May 25, 1944, in St Just in Roseland, Cornwall) is an English cricketer who played for various first class cricket teams.

Pentangular Tournament

An expansion of the Bombay Quadrangular, a first-class cricket tournament held in India.

Peter Fulton

Peter Fulton, a tall middle-order batsman nicknamed "Two-Metre Peter", initially made his mark on first-class cricket by scoring 301 not out against Auckland at the Hagley Oval in Christchurch in 2003, which is the highest maiden first-class century by any New Zealand batsman.

Philip Pearson-Gregory

He next represented Nottinghamshire in the 1914 season, which was to be his last in first-class cricket.

Raymond Swann

His elder son Alec has also represented Bedfordshire and played first-class cricket for Northamptonshire and Lancashire.

Richard Fortin

His uncle Derek Bridge played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Northamptonshire and Minor counties cricket for Dorset, as well as rugby union for a number of teams.

Stanley Toyne

Toyne's nephew, Herbert Hake OBE represented Hampshire and Cambridge University in first-class cricket.

Thomas Stringer

Worcestershire were crushed by an innings and 183 runs, and Stringer's only innings of bowling brought him figures of 1-103, his one and only victim in first-class cricket being future Test player Harry Makepeace.

Troon, Cornwall

Amongst the many good players to have represented the club down the years, two homegrown players have gone on to play first class cricket, these are Anthony Penberthy and Malcolm Dunstan.

Walter Sugg

His younger brother Frank played first-class cricket for Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire and England.