Charles Edward Austen Worsley (30 May 1902 – 2 December 1990) was an English

English people

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 cricket

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. Worsley was a right-handed batsman

Batting (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...

. The son of Edward Worsley, he was born at Evenley

Evenley

Evenley is a village and civil parish just over south of Brackley in South Northamptonshire, England.-Geography:The parish is bounded by the River Great Ouse to the north-east, one of its tributaries to the north-west and on other sides by field boundaries. The parish's north-eastern boundary is...

, Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census. It has boundaries with the ceremonial counties of Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east,...

 and educated at Radley College

Radley College

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.

Worsley made two first-class

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...

 appearances for Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire County Cricket Club

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 in the 1921 County Championship against Sussex

Sussex County Cricket Club

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 and Warwickshire

Warwickshire County Cricket Club

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. In the match against Sussex at the County Ground, Northampton, Worsely scored 5 runs Northamptonshire's first-innings, before being dismissed by Vallance Jupp

Vallance Jupp

Vallance William Crisp Jupp was an amateur cricketer who played for Sussex and Northamptonshire...

. In their second-innings he was dismissed for 23 by the same bowler. The match ended in a draw. In the match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston

Edgbaston Cricket Ground

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, he was dismissed for 4 runs in Northamptonshire's first-innings by Willie Quaife

Willie Quaife

William Quaife, known as "Willie", born at Newhaven, Sussex on 17 March 1872 and died at Edgbaston, Birmingham, on 13 October 1951, was a cricketer who played for Sussex, Warwickshire and England....

, while in their second-innings he scored 2 runs, before being dismissed by Harry Howell

Harry Howell (cricketer)

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. Warwickshire won the match by 82 runs.

He died at Cove

Cove, Devon

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, Devon

Devon

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 on 2 December 1990. His brother, Arthur, also played first-class cricket. He was also related through his mother to the Knight cricketing family, a large number of whom played first-class cricket.

External links

• Charles Worsley at ESPNcricinfo
• Charles Worsley at CricketArchive
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