Louis Edward Flint 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

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 in 1919 and 1920.

Flint was born in Ripley, Derbyshire

Ripley, Derbyshire

Ripley is a town in the Amber Valley area of Derbyshire in England.- Earliest history :Not much information is available as to when Ripley was founded, but it existed at the time of the Domesday Book, when it was held by a man called Levenot....

. During World War I

World War I

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 he served in the Sherwood Foresters

Sherwood Foresters

The Sherwood Foresters was formed during the Childers Reforms in 1881 from the amalgamation of the 45th Regiment of Foot and the 95th Regiment of Foot...

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Flint made his debut for Derbyshire against Lancashire immediately following the re-institution of the County Championship after the First World War in 1919. He played 5 more matches in 1919 and one match in 1920, in seasons when Derbyshire scored poorly in the County Championship. Flint was a right-arm medium-fast bowler who took 8 wickets in total at an average of 36.37 and a best performance of 3-30. He was a left-handed batsman and played 11 innings in 7 matches with a top score of 35 and an average of 9.09.

Flint died in Sutton-in-Ashfield

Sutton-in-Ashfield

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at the age of 63.