Henry Fletcher (cricketer)
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Henry Fletcher 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...

 between 1907 and 1908.

Fletcher was born in Clay Cross
Clay Cross
Clay Cross is a former mining town and civil parish in the North East Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England, about six miles south of Chesterfield. It is directly on the A61, the former Roman road Ryknield Street...

, Derbyshire
Derbyshire
Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...

. He made his debut in a match against Sussex
Sussex County Cricket Club
Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Sussex. The club was founded as a successor to Brighton Cricket Club which was a representative of the county of Sussex as a...

 in 1907, and played in two further games during the 1907 season
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1907
Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1907 represents the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for thirty six years. It was their thirteenth season in the County Championship and they finished bottom of the table having won two matches in the season.-1907 season:Derbyshire...

. He played two games in the 1908 season
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1908
Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1908 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for thirty-seven years. It was their fourteenth season in the County Championship and they won five matches to finish fourteenth in the Championship table.-1908 season:Derbyshire ...

, his final game coming against Kent
Kent County Cricket Club
Kent County Cricket Club is one of the 18 first class county county cricket clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the county of Kent...

. Overall, he played 10 innings in 5 first class matches, with a top score of 4.

Fletcher died in Chaddesden
Chaddesden
Chaddesden, also known locally as Chad, is a large suburb of Derby, United Kingdom, formerly known as Cedesdene.-Cedesene village:The old village of Cedesene is situated two and a half miles east of the city...

, Derbyshire at the age of 55.

Another Derbyshire cricketer, Thomas Fletcher
Thomas Fletcher (cricketer)
Thomas Fletcher was an English cricketer. who played for Derbyshire during the 1906 season.Fletcher was born in Heanor, Derbyshire and played in just a single innings for Derbyshire, during a West Indian tour of England in 1906, in which he played in the lower order. Fletcher was a right-handed...

, played for Derbyshire in 1906, though it is unclear as to whether the two were related. He is related to Hannah Fletcher, an English author.
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