Reginald Talbot Ryder was an English

England

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 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 1903.

Ryder was born in Monks Coppenhall

Crewe

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, Cheshire

Cheshire

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, the son of William C Ryder and his wife Octavia. His father was a general draper. Ryder played for Derbyshire in one first-class match during the 1903 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1903

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1903 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for thirty two years. It was their ninth season in the County Championship and they won five matches to come twelfth-1903 season:...

, against London County. He took a catch and was bowled for 10 in the first innings of the match in the upper order, but Derbyshire had won in the second innings before he was called in to bat.

Ryder died in Stockport

Stockport

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at the age of 48.