Edward Gower Wenman was an English 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 in the mid-19th century.

Coming to eminence in 1831, he was a key member of the great Kent

Kent county cricket teams

Kent county cricket teams have been traced back to the 17th century but the county's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that. Kent, jointly with Sussex, is the birthplace of the sport...

 team of the 1840s (along with players such as Fuller Pilch

Fuller Pilch

Fuller Pilch was an English cricketer. Described as "the greatest batsman ever known until the appearance of W. G. Grace", the right-hand batting Pilch played 229 first class cricket matches between 1820 and 1854 for an assortment of counties, including Kent, Hampshire, Surrey and Surrey, as well...

) and generally rated one of the best wicket-keeper

Wicket-keeper

The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being guarded by the batsman currently on strike...

s of the period. Ned's cousins George

George Wenman

George Wenman was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1825 to 1834. He was mainly associated with Kent and made 9 known appearances in first-class matches.-Bibliography:* Arthur Haygarth, Scores & Biographies, Volume 1-2 , Lillywhite, 1862...

 and John

John Wenman

John Gude Wenman was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1825 to 1838. He was a cousin of Ned Wenman. He played for Kent and made nine known appearances in first-class matches. He represented the Players in the Gentlemen v Players series and the South in the...

, son William, and brother, Charles

Charles Wenman

Charles Wenman was an English cricketer who played for Kent. He was born in Benenden.Wenman made a single first-class appearance, in 1828, against Sussex. Playing as a middle-order batsman, in the same team as his brother, Ned, and his cousin George, he scored three runs in the only innings in...

, all played first-class cricket for Kent.

External sources

• CricketArchive

Further reading

• H S Altham
  Harry Altham
  Harry Surtees Altham, CBE, DSO, MC was an English cricketer who became an important figure in the game as an administrator, historian and coach. His Wisden obituary described him as "among the best known personalities in the world of cricket"...
  
  , A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914), George Allen & Unwin, 1926
• Derek Birley
  Derek Birley
  Sir Derek Birley was an English educator and writer who had a strong interest in sport, especially cricket.He was educated at grammar school in Hemsworth, West Yorkshire, and at Queens' College, Cambridge University....
  
  , A Social History of English Cricket, Aurum, 1999
• Rowland Bowen
  Rowland Bowen
  Major Rowland Francis Bowen was a cricket researcher, historian and writer....
  
  , Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
• Arthur Haygarth
  Arthur Haygarth
  Arthur Haygarth was a noted amateur cricketer who became one of cricket's most significant historians....
  
  , Scores & Biographies, Volumes 3-9 (1841-1866), Lillywhite, 1862-1867
• John Major
  John Major
  Sir John Major, is a British Conservative politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990–1997...
  
  , More Than A Game, HarperCollins, 2007