Thomas Frederick Revill 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 first-class cricket for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 between 1913 and 1920.

Revill was born at Bolsover

Bolsover

Bolsover is a town near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. It is 145 miles  from London, 18 miles  from Sheffield, 26 miles  from Nottingham and 54 miles  from Manchester. It is the main town in the Bolsover district.The civil parish for the town is called...

, Derbyshire

Derbyshire

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. He made his debut for Derbyshire against Somerset

Somerset County Cricket Club

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 in July 1913 and played one more match that season. After World War I he returned to Derbyshire for eight matches in 1919 and made his top score of 65 not out against Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire County Cricket Club

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. He played just one game in 1920.

Revill was a left-hand batsman and played 20 innings in 11 first class matches with an average of 14.43 and a top score of 65 not out. He was a leg-break and googly bowler, but did not perform in the first class game.

Revill died at Mansfield

Mansfield

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, Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire

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 at the age of 86. In his obituary in the Daily Telegraph, it was noted that he was a fine raconteur. His son Alan Revill

Alan Revill

Alan Revill was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1946 and 1957 and for Leicestershire from 1958 to 1960. He scored over 15,000 first-class runs....

also played cricket for Derbyshire.