Edward Evershed was an English

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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 who played for Derbyshire

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 between 1888 and 1898.

Evershed was born in Stapenhill

Stapenhill

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, now part of Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire

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 (then in Derbyshire), the son of Sydney Evershed

Sydney Evershed (brewer)

Sydney Evershed , was an English brewer and Liberal Party politician who represented Burton.Evershed's family came from Albury in Surrey. By 1860 he had moved to Burton-on-Trent, and became a Burton brewer...

 the brewer and MP

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 for Burton

Burton (UK Parliament constituency)

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. In 1888, Evershed played non first=class matches for an Oxford University

Oxford University Cricket Club

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 team and for MCC

Marylebone Cricket Club

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 and then regularly for Derbyshire while they were without first class status until 1893.

Evershed made one first-class appearance for Derbyshire in 1898, as wicketkeeper against Warwickshire. During the season a number of players kept wicket instead of the regular William Storer

William Storer

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 who still took part in the matches. Evershed batted during the first innings, but did not make a contribution during the second, as the match petered out to a draw.

Evershed was a right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper, and made one run in the first class game.

Evershed died in Handsworth Wood

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. His brothers, Sydney

Sydney Evershed

Sir Sydney Herbert Evershed was an English brewer and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1880 to 1901 and was a long-serving club captain from 1891 to 1898....

, Wallis

Wallis Evershed

Wallis Evershed was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1882 and 1884.Evershed was born in Stapenhill, the son of Sydney Evershed the brewer and MP for Burton. He was educated at Clifton College where he was awarded his cap and was captain of the XI in 1882...

, and Frank

Frank Evershed

Frank Evershed was an English rugby player who played internationally for England between 1889 and 1893 and a cricketer who played for Derbyshire....

, and cousin Geoffrey Bell

Geoffrey Bell (cricketer)

Geoffrey Foxall Bell, MC was an English cricketer and educationalist. He was a right-handed batsman who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire and Oxford University. He won the Military Cross during World War I and became headmaster of two schools.Bell was born in Stapenhill, Derbyshire and was...

, all played first-class cricket, while William Evershed

William Evershed

William Evershed was an English cricketer.Evershed made his first-class debut for pre-county club Hampshire against Petworth in 1845...

also played first-class cricket in first half of the 19th century.