John Pratt 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. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm roundarm medium-pace bowler. He was born in Stratford and died in Phipps Bridge.

Pratt made a single first-class appearance, during the 1868 season, 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...

. He scored 9 runs in the first innings in which he batted, and a single run in the second.

Pratt bowled three overs during the match, with limited success. Pratt's brother-in-law, James Southerton

James Southerton

James Southerton was a professional cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1854 and 1879....

, made two Test appearances, the first in the inaugural Test during the 1876-77 season.

External links

• John Pratt at Cricket Archive