Basil Clarke | |
Country: | England |
Fullname: | Basil Frederick Clarke |
Birth Date: | 26 September 1885 |
Birth Place: | Madras, India |
Death Place: | Hove, Sussex, England |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Role: | Batsman |
Club1: | Leicestershire |
Year1: | 1922 |
Club2: | Army |
Year2: | 1919–1920 |
Club3: | Gloucestershire |
Year3: | 1914–1920 |
Club4: | HDG Leveson-Gower's XI |
Year4: | 1919 |
Type1: | First-class |
Debutdate1: | 23 July |
Debutyear1: | 1914 |
Debutfor1: | Gloucestershire |
Debutagainst1: | Nottinghamshire |
Lastdate1: | 8 July |
Lastyear1: | 1922 |
Lastfor1: | Leicestershire |
Lastagainst1: | Hampshire |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 20 |
Runs1: | 349 |
Bat Avg1: | 12.03 |
100S/50S1: | 1/0 |
Top Score1: | 108 |
Deliveries1: | 18 |
Wickets1: | 0 |
Bowl Avg1: | - |
Fivefor1: | 0 |
Tenfor1: | 0 |
Best Bowling1: | 0/24 |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 10/0 |
Date: | 20 April |
Year: | 2008 |
Source: | http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/28/28555/28555.html CricketArchive |
Basil Frederick Clarke (26 September 1885 – 4 May 1940) was an Indian-born 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]
Born in Madras in 1885, 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.
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.
He played twice for the Egypt national side against Free Foresters in April 1927. He scored just one first-class century in his career, an unbeaten 108 against Hampshire[5] in 1919.[6] He died in Sussex in 1940.