Another cricketer who played for Derbyshire during the 1887 season was named George Ratcliffe

George Ratcliffe (cricketer, born 1856)

Another cricketer who played for Derbyshire during the 1919 season was named George Ratcliffe.George Ratcliffe was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire from 1887 to 1889....

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George Ratcliffe (9 November 1882 — 31 December 1949) was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 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

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...

 in 1919.

Ratcliffe was born at Derby

Derby

Derby , is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands region of England. It lies upon the banks of the River Derwent and is located in the south of the ceremonial county of Derbyshire. In the 2001 census, the population of the city was 233,700, whilst that of the Derby Urban Area was 229,407...

. He played his only first class match for Derbyshire during the 1919 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1919

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1919 was the first cricket season after a four year break from first class cricket during World War I. The English club Derbyshire had been playing for forty-eight years...

 against the Australian Imperial Forces

Australian Imperial Forces cricket team in England in 1919

The Australian Imperial Forces cricket team in England in 1919 played 28 first-class matches, winning 12 and losing 4 with the other 12 drawn.-External sources:* -Further reading:* Bill Frindall, The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978, Wisden, 1979...

. He took a wicket within the 11 balls he bowled. He was a right-handed batsman and made 8 runs in the two innings as a tailend batsman.

Ratcliffe died at Ollerton

Ollerton

Ollerton is a town in Nottinghamshire, England, on the edge of Sherwood Forest in the area known as the Dukeries. It forms part of the civil parish of Ollerton and Boughton....

, Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west...

aged 67.

External links

• George Ratcliffe at Cricket Archive
• Rolls Royce - Derby testers