Charlie Absolom
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Full name | Charles Alfred Absolom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Port-of-Spain, Trinidad | 7 June 1846|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Cambridge Navvy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Only Test (cap 12) | 2 January 1879 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1866–1869 | Cambridge University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1868–1879 | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 19 March 2017 |
Charles Alfred Absolom (7 June 1846 – 30 July 1889) was an English amateur cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Kent County Cricket Club and England in the period from 1866 to 1879.
Early life
Absolom was born at Blackheath, Kent, the son of Edward Absolom, a tea merchant, and his wife Elizabeth.[1] The family later moved to Snaresbrook in Essex and Absolom was educated at a school in Calne in Wiltshire and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He won Blues in cricket and athletics at Cambridge before graduating in 1870.[2] He was known to friends as "Bos" and nicknamed "The Cambridge Navvy", possibly in reference to his size and strength.[1][3][4] In 18 matches for the university he took over 100 wickets and played in the Varsity Match in each year between 1866 and 1869.[5] He played in several games for the Gentlemen against the Players and in 1868 started playing for Kent.[6] After Cambridge he enrolled at Inner Temple but did not complete his law studies.[2]
Cricket career
Absolom toured Australia with
He did not play another Test match and had completed his career with Kent by the end of the 1879 season. He had played in 57 matches for the county and taken 87 wickets.[6] In 1868, whilst playing for Cambridge, Absolom became the first batsman in first-class cricket to be given out obstructing the field when a ball being returned to the wicket came into contact with his bat whilst he was attempting to complete a seventh run.[5]
Later life
After leaving the legal profession, it is unclear how Absolom made his living through much of the 1870s.
References
- ^ Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
- ^ a b c Venn JA (ed) (1940) Absolom, Charles Alfred in Alumni Cantabrigienses, p.4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Available online. Retrieved 2019-12-22.)
- CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
- ^ CricInfo, 2017-11-17.
- ^ a b c Mukherjee A (2016) Charlie Absolom becomes first to get out obstructing the field in First-Class cricket, Cricket Country, 2016-05-11. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
- ^ a b Charlie Absolom, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-11-17. (subscription required)
- ^ a b Liverman D (2017) A profile of Charlie Absolom, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-11-17. (subscription required)