Charles Wright England (Eng)
Batting style	Right-handed batsman
Bowling type
	Tests	First-class
Matches	3	265
Runs scored	125	6,989
Batting average	31.25	15.88
100s/50s	0/1	2/30
Top score	71	114
Balls bowled	0	59
Wickets	0	0
Bowling average	n/a	n/a
5 wickets in innings	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	0
Best bowling	n/a	n/a
Catches/stumpings	0/0	195/40
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Charles William Wright (born 27 May 1863 in Harewood, Yorkshire, England; died 10 January 1936 in Saxelby Park, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University between 1882 and 1885 and for Nottinghamshire between 1882 and 1899. Wright also played many first-class cricket games for the Marylebone Cricket Club. His Test match career was limited to three appearances for England against South Africa in 1895-96. Wright was an opening batsman and wicket-keeper. May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining. ... 1863 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Harewood (pronounced Hair-wood) is a village in the county of West Yorkshire, England, south of Harrogate. ... The White Yorkshire rose. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Travel guide to England from Wikitravel English language English law English (people) List of monarchs of England – Kings of England family tree List of English people Angeln (region in northern Germany, presumably the origin of the Angles for whom England is named) UK... January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Location within the British Isles Melton Mowbray or Melton is a town of around 40,000 people in the borough of Melton north-east Leicestershire, England, 15 miles from Leicester and 105 miles north of London. ... Leicestershire (abbreviated Leics) is a landlocked county in central England. ... A cricket match in progress. ... First-class cricket matches are those of at least three days length in which both teams have two innings each, and which involve either international teams or the highest division of domestic competition. ... Cambridge University Cricket Club (now subsumed into the Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence) is a first-class cricket team. ... The William Clarke stand at Nottinghamshires home ground, Trent Bridge. ... Lords 2005 The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), founded in 1787, was the original governing body of international cricket. ... Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. ... The English cricket team is a national cricket team which nominally represents England and Wales, but is a de facto United Kingdom team. ...

In total Wright went on four overseas tours, all of which were captained by Lord Hawke. These were to the United States and Canada in 1891 and 1894, to India in 1892-93, and then on the South African tour in which Wright played his Tests. Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke (16 August 1860-10 October 1938) 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 game. He captained...

He is also notable for two other occurrences:

• In 1890 he was the first captain to declare an innings closed. In a game against Kent at the Bat and Ball Ground in Gravesend, Wright declared Nottinghamshire's second innings closed on 157 for 5 to set Kent a target of 231 to win. However, the tactic did not come off as the game was drawn with Kent on 98 for 9 and Nottinghamshire requiring one more wicket to win.

• In 1893 Wright became the fourth^[1] batsman to be given out handled the ball after he picked up a ball that had become lodged in his pads and returned it to a fielder.

Wright retired from the game after losing his eye in a shooting accident and later became a long-standing member of the Nottinghamshire Cricket Club's committee. The 1890 English cricket season was the first year the County Championship was officially held, which Surrey won after winning nine out of fourteen games, and the English cricket team, captained by WG Grace, won the Ashes series 2–0 with a third Test match abandoned. ... Kent County Cricket Club is an English county cricket club based at Canterbury, Kent. ... Gravesend can refer to: Gravesend, Kent, England Gravesend, New York, USA This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The 1893 English cricket season was the first year in which the County Championship was officially won by a team other than Surrey. ... Handled the ball is a method of dismissal in the sport of cricket. ...

See also

• Declaration and forfeiture
• Handled the ball

In the sport of cricket a declaration occurs when a captain declares his teams innings closed and a forfeiture is when a captain choosing to forfeit an innings. ... Handled the ball is a method of dismissal in the sport of cricket. ...

Note

• ¹^  Cricinfo's page on Wright erroneously states that he was the second batsman to be given out handled the ball rather than the fourth. The first three cases were: J Grundy for the MCC against Kent in 1857, George "Farmer" Bennett for Kent against Sussex in 1872 and William Scotton for Smokers against Non smokers in 1886-7. This sequence is supported by, for example, page 285 of the 2003 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ISBN 094776677-4

References

• CricketArchive page on Charles Wright
• Scorecard of the game in which Wright became the first captain to declare and innings closed
• Scorecard of the game in which Wright was out handled the ball
• Cricinfo page on Charles Wright
• Obituary of Charles Wright in the 1937 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack