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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman (RHB) | |
| Bowling type | Right-arm medium | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 16 | 309 |
| Runs scored | 996 | 16738 |
| Batting average | 35. The England cricket team is the national cricket team which represents England and Wales. Mike Powell cricketerjpg|thumb|200px| Warwickshire batsman Mike Powell]] A batsman in the sport of Cricket is depending on context Any In the sport of Cricket there are two broad categories of bowlers: pace bowlers and spin bowlers Test cricket is the longest form of the Sport of Cricket. It has long been considered the ultimate test of playing ability between cricketing nations First-class cricket refers to the class of Cricket matches of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players and officially adjudged first-class by Batting average is a Statistic in both Cricket and Baseball measuring the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters, respectively 57 | 31. 12 |
| 100s/50s | 2/3 | 26/85 |
| Top score | 173 | 221 |
| Balls bowled | 162 | 14717 |
| Wickets | 2 | 278 |
| Bowling average | 47. In the sport of Cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings Meanings of wicket Set of stumps Primarily the wicket Bowling average is a Statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the Sport of Cricket. 00 | 23. 63 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 10 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 2 |
| Best bowling | 1/10 | 7/67 |
| Catches/stumpings | 6/0 | 257/0 |
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Test debut: 10 February 1888 |
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Andrew Ernest Stoddart (11 March 1863 – 4 April 1915) was an English cricketer and rugby union player. An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of Sports &ndash most notably Cricket and Baseball during For other uses see Stump (disambiguation Stump is a term used in the Sport of Cricket where has three different meanings Events 1355 - The St Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Events 962 - Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty Year 1863 ( MDCCCLXIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year The England cricket team is the national cricket team which represents England and Wales. Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries Overview See also Playing rugby union A rugby union match lasts for 80 minutes (plus stoppage time with a short He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1893. The Wisden Cricketers of the Year are Cricketers selected for the honour by the annual publication Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, based primarily on their Year 1893 ( MDCCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common
Born in South Shields, County Durham, he was the youngest son of a wine merchant, who moved the whole family to Marylebone, London, in 1877. South Shields is a coastal town in Tyne and Wear, England, located at the mouth of the River Tyne. Stoddart made his reputation in club cricket and was playing for Middlesex by 1885. He played 16 Test matches captaining England in 8 games of which he won 3, lost 4 and drew 1. Test cricket is the longest form of the Sport of Cricket. It has long been considered the ultimate test of playing ability between cricketing nations He was a flamboyant right-handed batsman and a medium fast bowler.
When he was 23, just a year after his first class debut, he was toying with the idea of giving up his amateur career in England to join his brother in Colorado. The State of Colorado ( or chiefly by nonresidents) is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States of America. His plans changed when he took the record for the highest ever score in cricket at the time with an innings of 485 for Hampstead against Stoics on August 4 1886. Hampstead is an area of London, England, located north-west of Charing Cross. Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common No declarations were allowed in the game and the Stoics, living up to their name, fielded all day without a chance to bat. Stoddart was seventh out, having batted six hours and ten minutes and clubbed one eight, three fives, and 64 fours. The runs were scored at a rapid pace - the score was 370 for 3 at lunch after 150 minutes of play. He made 207 for Hampstead in the next match three days later and on August 9 was playing for Middlesex and made 98, a grand total of 790 runs in a week. Stoddart was a man with a great zest for life in his younger days. He had danced then played cards till dawn before the Stoics game, batted almost through Hampstead's innings of 813, then played tennis, went to the theatre and turned in at 3 a. m. His next innings was against Kent when he posted his maiden first class century in scoring 116.
A talented all round sportsman, like most men who have held the record for the highest individual score, he also played in 10 rugby union internationals for England. Overview See also Playing rugby union A rugby union match lasts for 80 minutes (plus stoppage time with a short With fellow cricketers Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury he helped organise what became recognised as the first British Lions rugby union tour of Australia 1888/89. Alfred Shaw ( Burton Joyce Nottinghamshire, 29 August 1842 &ndash 16 January 1907 in Gedling Nottinghamshire Arthur Shrewsbury ( 11 April, 1856 &ndash 19 May, 1903) was an English Cricketer who was widely rated as competing with For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. The team played 55 matches, winning 27 of 35 rugby union games and 6 out of 19 matches and drawing 1 played under Australian rules with Stoddart one of the outstanding players. Australian (rules football, or simply known as football, footy or Aussie rules, is a Team sport played between two teams of 18 players He took over the captaincy early in the tour when the R. L. Seddon died tragically in a sculling accident.
Like many whole hearted sportsmen, including fellow England captain Arthur Shrewsbury with whom he had opened the batting in Australia in 1893, he found life difficult after leaving the arena. In failing health and burdened by debt he committed suicide, by firearm, in London in 1915. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year A street in South Shields is named after him. South Shields is a coastal town in Tyne and Wear, England, located at the mouth of the River Tyne.
Trivia
- Then wrote the queen of England
- Whose hand is blessed by God
- I must do something handsome
- For my dear victorious Stod. Year 1894 ( MDCCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1895 ( MDCCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year
Seventy years later, David Frith used My dear victorious Stod as the title of his acclaimed biography of Stoddart. David Edward John Frith (born 1937 is a leading Cricket writer and historian
| Preceded by WG Grace |
English national cricket captain 1894/5 |
Succeeded by Lord Hawke |
| Preceded by WG Grace |
English national cricket captain 1897/8 |
Succeeded by Lord Hawke |
External links
- Cricinfo page on Andrew Stoddart
- Simon Wilde on Stoddart's 485*
- CricketArchive page on Andrew Stoddart
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