Billy Midwinter Australia (Aus)
Batting style	Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling type	Round-arm Right-arm medium
	Tests	First-class
Matches	12	160
Runs scored	269	4534
Batting average	13.45	19.13
100s/50s	0/0	3/12
Top score	37	137*
Balls bowled	183	23463
Wickets	24	419
Bowling average	25.20	17.41
5 wickets in innings	1	27
10 wickets in match	0	3
Best bowling	5/78	7/27
Catches/Stumpings	10/0	122/0
Test debut: 15 March 1877 Last Test: 1 March 1887 Source: [1] Edit this template

William ("Billy") Evans Midwinter (born 19 June 1851 in Gloucestershire, England; died 3 December 1890 in Melbourne, Australia) was a cricketer who played four Test matches for England, sandwiched in between eight Tests that he played for Australia. Australian National Flag For more information, see Australian Government, Flying the Flag - Its an Honour!. Created by User:E Pluribus Anthony File links The following pages link to this file: Australia Politics of Australia Ashmore and Cartier Islands Australian Labor Party Australian Democrats Australian Capital Territory Talk:Australian rules... Cricket batsman A batsman in the sport of cricket is a player whose speciality in the game is batting. ... In the sport of cricket there are two categories of bowler: pace bowler and spin bowler. ... It has been suggested that Test status be merged into this article or section. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Batting average is a statistic in both baseball and cricket measuring the performance of baseball hitters and cricket batsmen, respectively. ... This article is about the cricket term. ... Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket. ... This article is about the cricket term. ... An innings, or inning, is a segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably baseball and cricket – during which a side takes its turn to bat. ... This article is about the cricket term. ... In the sport of cricket, the term stump has three different meanings: part of the wicket, a manner of dismissing a batsman, and the end of the days play (stumps). Part of the wicket The stumps are three vertical posts supporting the bails to form a wicket at each... March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 195 days remaining. ... 1852 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Gloucestershire (pronounced [ ˈglɒstəʃəʳ]; GLOSS-ter-sher) is a ceremonial and administrative county in southwest England. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1890 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia, with a population of 3,600,650 in the Melbourne metropolitan area (June 2004) and 61,670 in the City of Melbourne (which covers only the central city area). ... Cricket is a team sport played between two groups of eleven players each. ... Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. ... For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ...

Midwinter made his Test debut in the first ever Test match in 1877, playing for Australia, where he had emigrated aged nine, against the mother country. Later that year he returned to England, playing for WG Grace's Gloucestershire County Cricket Club. He was included in the Australian team to tour England in 1878, and played some matches for them, before, about to take the field at Lord's he was virtually kidnapped by Grace, who took him to the Oval to play for Gloucestershire in their game against Surrey. He didn't return to the tour, instead remaining (voluntarily) with Gloucestershire until the 1882 season. 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 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. ... Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is a county cricket club based at Bristol. ... 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The Media Centre at Lords Cricket Ground Lords Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in St Johns Wood in London. ... For the shape, see oval. ... Surrey County Cricket Club (SCCC) is an English domestic first-class cricket team based at The Oval in London. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

He was selected to tour with the England team visiting Australia in 1881/2, playing four Tests, and then in 1882/3 Midwinter emigrated back to Australia, joining Victoria. He was selected for Australia to play the one-off Test after England had won the first Ashes series in 1883/4, and then for the Australian tour of England in 1884. This makes him the only man to play for one international side, then another, and then return to his original international team. 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... For the rugby league series between Great Britain and Australia see Rugby League Ashes. ... 1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ...

By around 1888, Midwinter's wife and two of his children had died, and his business were failed or failing. He became "hopelessly insane" and was confined to Bendigo Hospital in 1890. He was then transferred to the Kera Asylum, Yarra Bend, where he died later that year. He was buried in the general cemetery in Melbourne. 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ...

References

• Cricinfo page on Billy Midwinter
• Brief profile of W.E. Midwinter by Don Ambrose
• List of first-class matches played by Billy Midwinter
• Midwinter's midsummer madness by Jenny Thompson, an account of Midwinter's kidnapping by WG Grace
• CricketArchive page on Billy Midwinter