Alfred Atfield
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| Full name | Alfred John Atfield | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
3 March 1868 Ightham, Kent, England |
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| Died | 1 January 1949 (aged 80) Caterham, Surrey, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman, umpire, coach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1893 | Gloucestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1900 | London County | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1901 | MCC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 29 May 1893 Gloucestershire v Middlesex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 28 March 1907 Transvaal v Border | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tests umpired | 8 (1909/10–1913/14) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 23 August 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alfred John Atfield (3 March 1868 – 1 January 1949) played first-class cricket in England and South Africa and was also a Test match umpire and an influential cricket coach. He was born at Ightham, Kent, England and died at Caterham, Surrey.
A right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler, Atfield played for Kent's second eleven before qualifying for Gloucestershire, for whom he played three first-class matches in 1893. Those were the only competitive first-class games of his career and in the third of them, batting at No 10 in the match against Kent, Atfield scored 45, which was his highest first-class score. He was then recruited to play as a professional by the aristocratic cricket patron W. H. Laverton who ran his own country-house cricket team at Leighton House, Westbury in Wiltshire and played over the next few years in many non-first-class games alongside some of the leading amateur players of the time: Laverton himself was the father-in-law of Lionel Palairet, for example, who was often included in Laverton teams. While engaged by Laverton, he also played regularly in Minor Counties cricket for Wiltshire in the early seasons of the Minor Counties Championship.
From 1897 onwards, Atfield divided his time between playing, coaching and umpiring commitments in England and South Africa. In the 1897–98 South African cricket season, he was a professional in Durban club cricket and played a single first-class match for Natal in that season. By 1900, he was back in England playing for W. G. Grace's London County team and the following year he became a professional for the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's, appearing in a couple of first-class matches in the 1901 season. In the second of these games, for MCC against London County, Atfield took his only first-class wickets; his first victim as a bowler was Grace.
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