George Pinder (cricketer)
 The Yorkshire County Cricket Club side in 1875. Pinder is on the left of the second row. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | George Pinder Hattersley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 July 1841 Ecclesfield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 15 January 1903 (aged 61) Hickleton, Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Underarm (unknown hand) slow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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George Pinder (15 July 1841 – 15 January 1903) was an English first-class cricketer.[1]
His birth name was George Pinder Hattersley and he was born in
He was recognised as a fine wicket-keeper, his work to the fast bowlers - at a time when keepers "stood up" (i.e. within arm's reach of the wicket) to fast bowling - being particularly impressive. He had plenty of practice, since Tom Emmett was in the same Yorkshire side. He had to deal with Emmett's famous "sostenuter", a ball pitching on the leg stump and then breaking sharply towards the off bail. He was renowned for the slickness of his stumpings of batsmen. When Tom Hearne was stumped off a leg-shooter he exclaimed: "I don't call that stumping; I call it shovelling of 'em in!"
He is believed to have been the first keeper to dispense with a
Pinder died in January 1903 in Hickleton, Yorkshire, aged 61.
Bibliography
- A. A. Thomson, Cricket My Happiness, Sportsmans Book Club edition, 1956, p103-104
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-905080-85-4.