Basil Clarke (cricketer)
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| Full name | Basil Frederick Clarke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 September 1885 Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1922 | 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
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
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