Andrew Stoddart England (Eng)
Batting style	Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling type	Right-arm medium
	Tests	First-class
Matches	16	309
Runs scored	996	16738
Batting average	35.57	31.12
100s/50s	2/3	26/85
Top score	173	221
Balls bowled	162	14717
Wickets	2	278
Bowling average	47.00	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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Andrew Ernest Stoddart (11 March 1863 – 4 April 1915) was an English cricketer and rugby union player. March 11 is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar). ... April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The English cricket team is a national cricket team representing England and Wales. ... A cricketer is a term used to refer to a person who plays cricket. ... A scrum Rugby union (often referred to as rugby, union or football) is one of the two codes of rugby football, the other being rugby league. ...

Born in South Shields, County Durham, he was the son of a wine merchant, who left for London in 1877. 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. He also played in 10 rugby union internationals. Stoddart was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1893. He committed suicide in London in 1915 by shooting himself at age 52. South Shields is a coastal town in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England on the south bank of the mouth of the River Tyne, with a population of about 90,000. ... County Durham is a county in north-east England. ... Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. ... The Wisden Cricketers of the Year award is made annually in the pages of the Wisden Cricketers Almanack yearbook. ... 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

A street in South Shields is named after him.

Trivia

• Punch celebrated the Stoddart's Ashes win in 1894-95 with a poem which contained the lines -

Then wrote the queen of England

Whose hand is blessed by God

I must do something handsome

For my dear victorious Stod.

Seventy years later, David Frith used My dear victorious Stod as the title of his acclaimed biography of Stoddart. 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... David Frith is one of the foremost cricketing writers and historians of modern times, who has become well renowned all over the world for his insights into world cricket and its development. ...

William Gilbert Grace (July 18, 1848–October 23, 1915) was an English cricketer who, by his extraordinary skills, made cricket perhaps the first modern spectator sport, and who developed most of the techniques of modern batting. ... This is a list of all English national cricket captains, comprising all of the men, boys and women who have captained an English national cricket team at official international level. ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Martin Bladen Hawke (16 August 1860-10 October 1938), from 1887 known as Lord Hawke was an English cricketer who, Wisden wrote, strode the cricketing world like a colossus for half a century, as a player and administrator, and one who played a major part in the modernisation of the... William Gilbert Grace (July 18, 1848–October 23, 1915) was an English cricketer who, by his extraordinary skills, made cricket perhaps the first modern spectator sport, and who developed most of the techniques of modern batting. ... This is a list of all English national cricket captains, comprising all of the men, boys and women who have captained an English national cricket team at official international level. ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Martin Bladen Hawke (16 August 1860-10 October 1938), from 1887 known as Lord Hawke was an English cricketer who, Wisden wrote, strode the cricketing world like a colossus for half a century, as a player and administrator, and one who played a major part in the modernisation of the...

External links

• Cricinfo page on Andrew Stoddart
• Simon Wilde of Stoddart's 485*
• CricketArchive page on Andrew Stoddart
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