Dé Kessler
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Johann Heinrich Hermann "Dé" Kessler (11 August 1891 – 6 September 1943) was a Dutch
football and cricket
player.
and cousins Boeli and Dolf
- played club football for amateur side HVV Den Haag
. Kessler also won 21 caps for the Dutch national side
between 1909 and 1922, scoring nine goals. After playing alongside each other in a match against England
in March 1913, the Kessler brothers became the first brothers to represent the Netherlands together in an international match.
. In August 1922 he scored a century
against Ingoniti, scoring 100 not out
in the second innings of the match.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
football and 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...
player.
Football
Kessler - along with brother TonnyTonny Kessler
Hermann Anton Joseph "Tonny" Kessler was a Dutch football player. Kessler - along with brother Dé and cousins Boeli and Dolf - played club football for amateur side HVV Den Haag. Kessler also won three caps for the Dutch national side between 1907 and 1913, scoring one goals...
and cousins Boeli and Dolf
Dolf Kessler
-Publications:* E.M.L. Kessler-Stoop, Terugblick op het leven en de persoon van Geldolph Adriaan Kessler , privately printed collection of letters, The Netherlands, 175 pages....
- played club football for amateur side HVV Den Haag
HVV Den Haag
HVV is an amateur football club in The Hague in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1883 as an extension of HCC, the Hague Cricket Club...
. Kessler also won 21 caps for the Dutch national side
Netherlands national football team
The Netherlands National Football Team represents the Netherlands in association football and is controlled by the Royal Dutch Football Association , the governing body for football in the Netherlands...
between 1909 and 1922, scoring nine goals. After playing alongside each other in a match against England
England national football team
The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
in March 1913, the Kessler brothers became the first brothers to represent the Netherlands together in an international match.
Cricket
Kessler played for the Netherlands national cricket team. He played five matches for them between 1921 and 1925, including two against the Free Foresters and one against the MCCMarylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club in London founded in 1787. Its influence and longevity now witness it as a private members' club dedicated to the development of cricket. It owns, and is based at, Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London NW8. MCC was formerly the governing body of...
. In August 1922 he scored a century
Century (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, a batsman reaches his century when he scores 100 or more runs in a single innings. The term is also included in "century partnership" which occurs when two batsmen add 100 runs to the team total when they are batting together. A century is regarded as a landmark score for...
against Ingoniti, scoring 100 not out
Not out
In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...
in the second innings of the match.