Stanley Dickinson
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Stanley Patrick Dickinson (7 March 1890 — 25 June 1972) 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 1909.

Dickinson was born in Norton, Derbyshire and educated at Haileybury College where he was in the cricket XI in 1906 and 1907. He made two appearances for Derbyshire during the 1909 season
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1909
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, his first coming in an innings defeat at the hands of Yorkshire
Yorkshire County Cricket Club
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 and his second in a draw against Warwickshire
Warwickshire County Cricket Club
Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Warwickshire. Its limited overs team is called the Warwickshire Bears. Their kit colours are black and gold and the shirt sponsor...

.

Dickinson was a right-handed batsman and scored 13 runs overall. He was a right-arm medium-fast bowler and took one wicket.

Dickinson died at Dolbenmaen, near Criccieth
Criccieth
Criccieth is a town and community on Cardigan Bay, in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd in Wales. The town lies west of Porthmadog, east of Pwllheli and south of Caernarfon. It has a population of 1,826....

, Caernarvonshire at the age of 82.
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