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Charles John Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham KG GCMG GCVO TD PC (8 August 1909 – 20 March 1977) was a New Zealand political figure and English cricketer. He was born in Kensington, London, and educated at Eton College. He died in Marylebone, also London. Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ...
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Cricket batsman A batsman in the sport of cricket is, depending on context: Any player in the act of batting. ...
In the sport of cricket there are two categories of bowler: pace bowler and spin bowler. ...
First-class cricket matches are those between international teams or the highest standard of domestic teams in which teams have two innings each. ...
Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball measuring the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters, respectively. ...
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Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket. ...
In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings: // Meanings of wicket Each wicket consists of three stumps, upright wooden poles that are hammered into the ground, topped with two wooden crosspieces, known as the bails. ...
An innings, or inning, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably baseball and cricket – during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring. ...
In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings: // Meanings of wicket Each wicket consists of three stumps, upright wooden poles that are hammered into the ground, topped with two wooden crosspieces, known as the bails. ...
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He served as the Governor-General of New Zealand between 1957 and 1962. Flag of the Governor-General of New Zealand. ...
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Cricket Lyttelton enjoyed a fairly substantial career in first-class cricket, playing more than 90 times for Worcestershire in the 1930s and captaining the club between 1936 and 1939. First-class cricket matches are those between international teams or the highest standard of domestic teams in which teams have two innings each. ...
Worcestershire CCC logo Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Worcestershire. ...
He made his first-class debut against Gloucestershire in June 1932, but made a duck in his only innings and did not reappear for two years. He played five times in 1934, but it was only the following season that he became established in the side, playing about twenty matches a year from then until the Second World War, with the exception of 1937 when he appeared only twice. Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is an English domestic first-class cricket club based at County Cricket Ground, Bristol. ...
In cricket, a duck denotes a batsman getting out for a score of zero and usually used in the saying Out for a duck. Originally called a ducks egg because of the 0 shape in the scorebook. ...
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Lyttelton's highest score (and only first-class century) was the 162 he made against Leicestershire in 1938, but he made many other useful if lesser contributions with the bat, reaching fifty on 14 further occasions. His most productive year was 1938, when he scored 741 runs at an average of 21.17. Leicestershire County Cricket Club is an English county cricket club based at Grace Road, Leicester. ...
Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball measuring the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters, respectively. ...
With the ball, his first victim (in July 1934) was Charlie Barnett, while in 1935 he produced his best innings' bowling, claiming 4-83 against the South Africans. However, after 1935 his bowling became a largely occasional part of his game, and with the exception of nine wickets in 1938 he never again took more than three in a season. Charles John Barnett (born July 3, 1910, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, died May 28, 1993, Stroud, Gloucestershire) was an English cricketer who played in 20 Tests from 1933 to 1948. ...
Lyttelton's cricketing career proper ended with the outbreak of war, but (now listed on the scorecard as Lord Cobham, having succeeded to the title in 1949) he played for an "MCC New Zealand Touring Team" against a strong "London New Zealand Club" side in 1954, taking two wickets including that of Bill Merritt. Remarkably, however, he made a one-off return to first-class action aged 51 in February 1961, more than two decades after his previous appearance at that level, when as New Zealand Governor-General he captained an eponymous side against MCC at Auckland; he showed he still had ability with a handy first-innings 44 from number ten in the order. William Edward Merritt (18 August 1908 - 9 June 1977) has played six tests for New Zealand. ...
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As well as the matches mentioned above, Lyttelton also played ten games for MCC: one against Oxford University in 1935, and nine on MCC's tour of Australia and New Zealand during the winter that followed. Lords 2005 The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), founded in 1787, is a private members club and was the original governing body of cricket in England and across the world. ...
Oxford University Cricket Club (now subsumed into the Oxford University Centre of Cricketing Excellence) is a first-class cricket team. ...
A number of his relatives played first-class cricket. His great-grandfather George played for Cambridge University in the 1830s, his grandfather (also Charles) turned out for a selection of teams including Cambridge and MCC in the 1860s, his brother John made a handful of appearances for Worcestershire in the 1920s, and his uncle - another Charles - played for Worcestershire, Cambridge and MCC before the First World War. Lord Lyttleton by Carlo Pellegrini, 1871. ...
Cambridge University Cricket Club (now subsumed into the Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence) is a first-class cricket team. ...
Charles Frederick Lyttelton (26 January 1887 - 3 October 1931) was an English cricketer, who played 31 first-class games for Cambridge University, Worcestershire and MCC in the early twentieth century. ...
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External links - Official biography (Government House, Wellington)
- Player Profile: Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham from Cricinfo
- Statistical summary from CricketArchive
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