AE Stoddart
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| Full name | Andrew Ernest Stoddart | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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11 March 1863 Westoe, South Shields, Co. Durham, England |
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| Died | 4 April 1915 (aged 52) St John's Wood, London, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 56) | 10 February 1888 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 2 February 1898 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1885 – 1900 | Middlesex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricinfo, 11 November 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Andrew Ernest Stoddart (11 March 1863 – 4 April 1915) was a sportsman who played international cricket for England, and rugby union for England and the British Isles. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1893.
Born in South Shields, County Durham, he was the youngest son of a wine merchant, who moved the whole family to Marylebone, London, in 1877. Stoddart made his reputation in club cricket and was playing for Middlesex by 1885. He played 16 Test matches captaining England in 8 games of which he won 3, lost 4 and drew 1. He was a flamboyant right-handed batsman and a right arm medium pace bowler.
When he was 23, just a year after his first class debut, he was toying with the idea of giving up his amateur career in England to join his brother in Colorado. His plans changed when he took the record for the highest ever score in cricket at the time with an innings of 485 for Hampstead against Stoics on 4 August 1886. No declarations were allowed in the game and the Stoics, living up to their name, fielded all day without a chance to bat. Stoddart was seventh out, having batted six hours and ten minutes and clubbed one eight, three fives, and 64 fours. The runs were scored at a rapid pace - the score was 370 for 3 at lunch after 150 minutes of play. He made 207 for Hampstead in the next match three days later and on 9 August was playing for Middlesex and made 98, a grand total of 790 runs in a week. Stoddart was a man with a great zest for life in his younger days. He had danced then played cards till dawn before the Stoics game, batted almost through Hampstead's innings of 813, then played tennis, went to the theatre and turned in at 3 a.m. His next innings was against Kent when he posted his maiden first class century in scoring 116.
Then wrote the queen of England
Whose hand is blessed by God
I must do something handsome
For my dear victorious Stod.
Seventy years later, David Frith used My dear victorious Stod as the title of his acclaimed biography of Stoddart.
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