Basil Clarke (cricketer)
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| Full name | Basil Frederick Clarke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 September 1885 Madras, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 4 May 1940 (aged 54) Hove, Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1922 | Leicestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1919–1920 | Army | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1914–1920 | Gloucestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1919 | HDG Leveson-Gower's XI | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 23 July 1914 Gloucestershire v Nottinghamshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 8 July 1922 Leicestershire v Hampshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 20 April 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Basil Frederick Clarke (26 September 1885 – 4 May 1940) was an Indian-born English cricketer.[1] A right-handed batsman, he played county cricket for Gloucestershire and Leicestershire[2] and also played twice for the Egypt national cricket team.[3]
Biography
Born in Madras in 1885,[2] Basil Clarke made his first-class debut for Gloucestershire in a County Championship match against Nottinghamshire during the 1914 English cricket season. He played two further county championship matches, against Lancashire and Yorkshire, that season.[4]
His cricket career was interrupted by the First World War, and he returned to first-class cricket for the 1919 season, when he played four County Championship matches for Gloucestershire. He also played first-class matches for Gloucestershire against Worcestershire and the touring Australian Imperial Forces team in addition to a match for the Army against the Royal Navy at Lord's and a match for HDG Leveson-Gower's XI against Oxford University during the season.[4]
He played three County Championship matches for Gloucestershire in 1920, in addition to a match for the Army against Oxford University. He moved to play for Leicestershire for the 1922 season, playing five County Championship matches in his last year of first-class cricket.[4]
He played twice for the Egypt national side against Free Foresters in April 1927.[3] He scored just one first-class century in his career,[2] an unbeaten 108 against Hampshire[5] in 1919.[6] He died in Sussex in 1940.[2]
References
- ^ ESPNcricinfo profile
- ^ a b c d CricketArchive profile
- ^ a b Other matches played by Basil Clarke at CricketArchive
- ^ a b c First-class matches played by Basil Clarke at CricketArchive
- ^ First-class batting and fielding against each opponent by Basil Clarke at CricketArchive
- ^ First-class batting and fielding in each season by Basil Clarke at CricketArchive
- 1885 births
- 1940 deaths
- Cricketers from Chennai
- Egyptian cricketers
- English cricketers
- Gloucestershire cricketers
- Leicestershire cricketers
- British Army cricketers
- H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers
- English cricketers of 1890 to 1918
- English cricketers of 1919 to 1945
- British Army personnel of World War I
- Military personnel of British India
- British Army soldiers
- British people in colonial India