Benjamin Caesar
Encyclopedia
Benjamin Julius Caesar was an English professional cricket
er who played first-class cricket
from 1824 to 1830. He was mainly associated with Godalming Cricket Club
and Surrey
and made 11 known appearances in first-class matches. He was the father of Julius Caesar
.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er who played first-class cricket
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
from 1824 to 1830. He was mainly associated with Godalming Cricket Club
Godalming Cricket Club
Godalming Cricket Club is based at Godalming, Surrey, and was briefly a major cricket team, playing 12 known first-class matches from 1821 to 1825. Its home ground then was The Burys but is now Holloway Hill recreation ground....
and Surrey
Surrey county cricket teams
Surrey county cricket teams have been traced back to the 17th century but the county's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that. The first definite mention of cricket anywhere in the world is dated c.1550 in Guildford.-17th century:...
and made 11 known appearances in first-class matches. He was the father of Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar (cricketer)
Julius Caesar was a Surrey cricketer who played 194 first-class cricket matches between 1849 and 1867.-Childhood:...
.