Fred Huish
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| Full name | Frederick Henry Huish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
15 November 1869 Clapham, Surrey |
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| Died | 16 March 1957 (aged 87) Northiam, Sussex |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Francis Huish (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1895–1914 | Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricInfo, 4 February 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frederick Henry Huish (15 November 1869–16 March 1957), known as Fred Huish, was an English professional cricketer who played as a wicket-keeper for Kent County Cricket Club in the period before the First World War. Huish played over 450 times for Kent and was part of the sides which won four County championship titles in the Golden Age of cricket leading up to the war. He holds the record for the most dismissals by a wicket-keeper in first-class cricket who did not play a Test match.
Huish became an influential figure and senior professional at Kent at a time when amateur cricketers were the only acceptable captains in English county cricket. He was described in his Wisden obituary as "one of the ablest and least demonstrative wicket-keepers of his generation".
Huish made his debut for Kent at the age of 25 in 1895 against Warwickshire at Edgbaston. He played three times in 1895 before going on to become the regular wicket-keeper for Kent from 1896 to 1914, making at least 19 appearances each season for the County. In 1899 he dismissed a then-record 79 batsmen, including taking eight catches in one match at Trent Bridge against Nottinghamshire, and went on to become the first wicket-keeper to take 100 dismissals in a season in 1911.
Huish repeated this feat in 1913 and, as of April 2016, remains the record holder for most dismissals in a career for Kent. He is also second on the all-time list of first-class stumpings in a career with 377, second only to another Kent wicket-keeper Les Ames. Huish is generally considered the first in a line of great Kent wicket-keepers including the likes of Ames, Godfrey Evans and Alan Knott. He kept Jack Hubble, who succeeded Huish behind the stumps after World War I, out of the wicket-keeper role in the Kent side. Despite his record-breaking career he was never chosen as one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year and was never called into the England side, although is he often considered unlucky not to have played internationally.
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