Samuel Cockerill
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Samuel Pepys Cockerill was an English amateur cricketer
who played first-class cricket
from 1817 to 1819.
Cockerill attended Winchester School and subsequently played for the Old Wykehamists in a match in 1817, one of his 2 known appearances in first-class matches. He played for the Gentlemen in the 1819 Gentlemen v Players
match.
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...
who played first-class cricket
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
from 1817 to 1819.
Cockerill attended Winchester School and subsequently played for the Old Wykehamists in a match in 1817, one of his 2 known appearances in first-class matches. He played for the Gentlemen in the 1819 Gentlemen v Players
Gentlemen v Players
The Gentlemen v Players game was a first-class cricket match that was generally played on an annual basis between one team consisting of amateurs and one of professionals . The first two games took place in 1806 but the fixture was not revived until 1819. It was more or less annual thereafter...
match.
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Further reading
- Arthur HaygarthArthur HaygarthArthur Haygarth was a noted amateur cricketer who became one of cricket's most significant historians....
, Scores & Biographies, Volumes 1 (1744-1826), Lillywhite, 1862