Sandford Schultz
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Sandford Spence Schultz (29 August 1857, Birkenhead
, Cheshire
, England
– 18 December 1937, Brompton, Kensington
, London
, England
) was an English
cricket
er, who played for Cambridge University
, Lancashire
and England
.
Schultz was the son of George Edward Schultz and his wife Emma. He was educated at Uppingham
and Jesus College, Cambridge
.
Although Schultz was only an occasional player in first-class cricket
, he was prolific in club cricket and was selected as an amateur
in Lord Harris's side that toured Australia
in 1878/9, and played in the one Test match
of that tour.
Schultz was a fast round-arm bowler and made a lot of runs in club cricket. His Wisden
obituary in 1938 recalled a less happy batting experience related in a letter to The Times
by a Mr Edmund Peake about a match on the Christchurch ground at Oxford in 1881:
Schultz was a stockbroker by trade, working on the Liverpool Exchange for a firm known as Messrs Hedderwick and Schultz. Around the time of World War I
, Schultz changed his Germanic-sounding name to Sandford Spence Storey.
He was the only English Test cricketer with a 'z' in his surname for over a century, until Usman Afzaal
played three Tests in 2001.
Birkenhead
Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England. It is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the west bank of the River Mersey, opposite the city of Liverpool...
, Cheshire
Cheshire
Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. Cheshire's county town is the city of Chester, although its largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Widnes, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Winsford, Northwich, and Wilmslow...
, England
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...
– 18 December 1937, Brompton, Kensington
Brompton, Kensington
Brompton is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is roughly defined by a triangle formed by the Brompton Cemetery, Old Brompton Road/Brompton Road and Walton Street/Fulham Road.-Development:...
, London
London
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, England
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...
) was an English
English people
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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 Cambridge University
Cambridge University Cricket Club
Cambridge University Cricket Club is a first-class cricket team. It now plays all but one of its first-class cricket matches as part of the Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence , which includes Anglia Ruskin University...
, Lancashire
Lancashire County Cricket Club
Lancashire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1864 as a successor to Manchester Cricket Club and has played at Old Trafford since then...
and England
English cricket team
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.
Schultz was the son of George Edward Schultz and his wife Emma. He was educated at Uppingham
Uppingham School
Uppingham School is a co-educational independent school of the English public school tradition, situated in the small town of Uppingham in Rutland, England...
and Jesus College, Cambridge
Jesus College, Cambridge
Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The College was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely...
.
Although Schultz was only an occasional player in 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...
, he was prolific in club cricket and was selected as an amateur
Amateur status in first-class cricket
Amateur status in first-class cricket had a special meaning, especially in England, in that the amateur in this context was not merely someone who played cricket in his spare time but a particular type of first-class cricketer who existed officially until 1962, when the distinction between amateurs...
in Lord Harris's side that toured Australia
Australian cricket team
The Australian cricket team is the national cricket team of Australia. It is the joint oldest team in Test cricket, having played in the first Test match in 1877...
in 1878/9, and played in the one Test match
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
of that tour.
Schultz was a fast round-arm bowler and made a lot of runs in club cricket. His Wisden
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom...
obituary in 1938 recalled a less happy batting experience related in a letter to The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
by a Mr Edmund Peake about a match on the Christchurch ground at Oxford in 1881:
Schultz was a stockbroker by trade, working on the Liverpool Exchange for a firm known as Messrs Hedderwick and Schultz. Around the time of World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
, Schultz changed his Germanic-sounding name to Sandford Spence Storey.
He was the only English Test cricketer with a 'z' in his surname for over a century, until Usman Afzaal
Usman Afzaal
Usman Afzaal is a Pakistani-born cricketer who has played three Test matches for England, all against Australia in 2001. He is a left-handed middle order batsman and occasional left arm slow bowler....
played three Tests in 2001.