Basil Frederick Clarke (26 September 1885 – 4 May 1940) was an English cricketer.[1] A right-handed batsman, he played county cricket for Gloucestershire and Leicestershire[2] and also played twice for the Egypt national cricket team.[3]

Biography

Born in Madras in 1885,[2] Basil Clarke made his first-class debut for Gloucestershire in a County Championship match against Nottinghamshire during the 1914 English cricket season. He played two further county championship matches, against Lancashire and Yorkshire, that season.[4]

His cricket career was interrupted by the First World War, and he returned to first-class cricket for the 1919 season, when he played four County Championship matches for Gloucestershire. He also played first-class matches for Gloucestershire against Worcestershire and the touring Australian Imperial Forces team in addition to a match for the Army against the Royal Navy at Lord's and a match for HDG Leveson-Gower's XI against Oxford University during the season.[4]

He played three County Championship matches for Gloucestershire in 1920, in addition to a match for the Army against Oxford University. He moved to play for Leicestershire for the 1922 season, playing five County Championship matches in his last year of first-class cricket.[4]

He played twice for the Egypt national side against Free Foresters in April 1927.[3] He scored just one first-class century in his career,[2] an unbeaten 108 against Hampshire[5] in 1919.[6] He died in Sussex in 1940.[2]

References

  1. ^ ESPNcricinfo profile
  2. ^ a b c d CricketArchive profile
  3. ^ a b Other matches played by Basil Clarke at CricketArchive
  4. ^ a b c First-class matches played by Basil Clarke at CricketArchive
  5. ^ First-class batting and fielding against each opponent by Basil Clarke at CricketArchive
  6. ^ First-class batting and fielding in each season by Basil Clarke at CricketArchive
Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Clarke_(cricketer)
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