Hugh Rotherham

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Hugh Rotherham
Hugh Rotherham, c. 1895
Personal information
Full name
Hugh Rotherham
Born(1861-03-16)16 March 1861
Coventry, Warwickshire, England
Died24 February 1939(1939-02-24) (aged 77)
Coventry
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast (round-arm)
RoleBowler
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1884–1903Warwickshire
First-class debut10 May 1880 An England XI v Cambridge University
Last First-class10 July 1903 Warwickshire v Philadelphians
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 23
Runs scored 179
Batting average 7.16
100s/50s –/–
Top score 33
Balls bowled 4377
Wickets 101
Bowling average 19.87
5 wickets in innings 8
10 wickets in match 2
Best bowling 8/57
Catches/stumpings 21/–
Source: CricketArchive, 25 June 2015

Hugh Rotherham (16 March 1861 – 24 February 1939) was an English

cricketer who played first-class cricket for a wide variety of amateur teams between 1880 and 1903, including the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the Gentlemen, and a single first-class match for Warwickshire.[1][2] He was born and died at Coventry
.

Rotherham's father was the Coventry

round-arm
style.

Rotherham's first first-class match was for an "

England XI" against Cambridge University and he took seven wickets in the match.[3] Three weeks later, playing for a "Gentlemen of England" side against Oxford he did even better, taking six for 34 and four for 65 to finish with match figures of 10 for 99.[4] That led to his selection for the showpiece Gentlemen v Players match at Lord's, where he took eight wickets as the Gentlemen recorded a rare victory.[5] He played only minor cricket in 1881, but returned in 1882 and again played in some of the bigger fixtures of the year, including the Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval
.

In the 1883 season, Rotherham was one of the principal participants in the Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval which ended sensationally in a

Edmund Peate with the scores level.[6]

He achieved his best bowling figures in the 1884 season, playing for the Gentlemen of England against Oxford University: in the first Oxford innings, he took eight wickets for 57 runs and he followed that up with six for 93 in the second innings to finish with match figures of 14 for 150.[7] He also appeared in a first-class match between an England XI and the 1884 Australian team at Birmingham, a match scheduled for three days but completed in a single day.[8] The 1884 season was the last in which he played in the Gentlemen v Players series and he failed to take a wicket in his last appearance in this fixture.

In 1885 he played only two matches, both taking place in a single week, and thereafter he was almost exclusively involved in second-class games only, including several where he was captain of the Warwickshire team, at that stage not a first-class team.[1] There were only three exceptions: two of the matches played on a tour in September 1886 of North America led by Ned Sanders and consisting of amateur cricketers, of which Rotherham was one, were reckoned to be of first-class status.[9] Then in 1903, almost 17 years after his previous first-class match, he returned for his single first-class appearance for Warwickshire when he captained the side against the touring team from Philadelphia.[1] In this last game, he also kept wicket for the only time in his career and he also made his highest first-class score, an innings of 33.[10]

Rotherham became head of the family company and was active in the Coventry guild companies and in the London

Barclays Bank.[11] But it also exaggerates his claims to cricketing fame, stating that he appeared in "the earlier Test matches against Australia", which is not true.[11]

Rotherham was not married. His nephew,

First World War
.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Hugh Rotherham". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Obituaries in 1939". Wisden. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Scorecard: Cambridge University v England XI". www.cricketarchive.com. 10 May 1880. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  4. ^ "Scorecard: Oxford University v Gentlemen of England". www.cricketarchive.com. 31 May 1880. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  5. ^ "Scorecard: Gentlemen v Players". www.cricketarchive.com. 5 July 1880. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  6. ^ "Scorecard: Gentlemen v Players". www.cricketarchive.com. 28 June 1883. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  7. ^ "Scorecard: Oxford University v Gentlemen of England". www.cricketarchive.com. 19 May 1884. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  8. ^ "Scorecard: England XI v Australians". www.cricketarchive.com. 26 May 1884. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  9. ^ "E. J. Sanders' XI in North America in 1886". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  10. ^ "Scorecard: Warwickshire v Philadelphians". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  11. ^ a b c "Mr H. Rotherham". The Times. No. 48245. London. 4 March 1939. p. 14.
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