Wallis Evershed was an English

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...

 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

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...

 between 1882 and 1884.

Evershed was born in Stapenhill

Stapenhill

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, the son of Sydney Evershed

Sydney Evershed (brewer)

Sydney Evershed , was an English brewer and Liberal Party politician who represented Burton.Evershed's family came from Albury in Surrey. By 1860 he had moved to Burton-on-Trent, and became a Burton brewer...

 the brewer and MP

Member of Parliament

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 for Burton

Burton (UK Parliament constituency)

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. He was educated at Clifton College

Clifton College

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 where he was awarded his cap (for rugby) and was captain of the XI in 1882. Evershed made his first-class debut for Derbyshire in an innings victory against Sussex

Sussex County Cricket Club

Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Sussex. The club was founded as a successor to Brighton Cricket Club which was a representative of the county of Sussex as a...

 in July 1882, when he scored 19 runs in Derbyshire's innings. He made one further appearance during the 1882 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1882

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, in a defeat by Yorkshire

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

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.

Evershed made eight appearances in the 1883 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1883

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1883 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for twelve years. They won two first class matches out of ten.-1883 season:...

, playing in all Derbyshire's County matches and twice against MCC

Marylebone Cricket Club

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. He scored each of his three half-century innings during this season, including his career highest score of 92, achieved against Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

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. In this match, he and team-mate Edmund Maynard

Edmund Maynard

Edmund Anthony Jefferson Maynard was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire from 1880 to 1887 and captained the side for two seasons.Maynard was the son of Edmund Gilling Maynard, of West House, Chesterfield...

 put on over fifty percent of the innings total, in separate batting partnerships. He ended the season with the most runs scored for the club. In the 1884 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1884

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1884 represents the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for thirteen years. They lost all ten county matches and their only victory was against MCC.-1884 season:...

, he only played one match for the club against Sussex, which was his last.

Evershed was a right-handed batsman and played 24 innings in 13 first class matches with an average of 14.87 and a top score of 92. He was a right-arm medium-pace bowler and in 27 balls took three wickets for eight runs.

Evershed died in Kendal

Kendal

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 two days short of his 48th birthday. His brothers, Edward

Edward Evershed

Edward Evershed was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1888 and 1898.Evershed was born in Stapenhill, now part of Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire , the son of Sydney Evershed the brewer and MP for Burton...

, Sydney

Sydney Evershed

Sir Sydney Herbert Evershed was an English brewer and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1880 to 1901 and was a long-serving club captain from 1891 to 1898....

, Frank

Frank Evershed

Frank Evershed was an English rugby player who played internationally for England between 1889 and 1893 and a cricketer who played for Derbyshire....

, and cousin Geoffrey Bell

Geoffrey Bell (cricketer)

Geoffrey Foxall Bell, MC was an English cricketer and educationalist. He was a right-handed batsman who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire and Oxford University. He won the Military Cross during World War I and became headmaster of two schools.Bell was born in Stapenhill, Derbyshire and was...

 were all first-class cricketers, while William Evershed

William Evershed

William Evershed was an English cricketer.Evershed made his first-class debut for pre-county club Hampshire against Petworth in 1845...

 also played first-class cricket in first half of the 19th century.

External links

• Wallis Evershed at Cricket Archive