Joe Humphries
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| Full name | Joseph Humphries | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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19 May 1876 Stonebroom, Derbyshire, England |
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| Died | 7 May 1946 (aged 69) Chesterfield, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | wicket-keeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut | 1 January 1908 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 7 February 1908 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1899–1914 | Derbyshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1904-1914 | MCC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Joseph ("Joe") Humphries (19 May 1876 – 7 May 1946) was an English cricketer who played three Test matches for England on their tour to Australia in 1907-08 and for Derbyshire County Cricket Club and the Marylebone Cricket Club between 1899 and 1914.
Humphries was born in Stonebroom, Derbyshire,the son of John Thomas Humphries and his wife Eliza. His father was a coal miner.
Humphries was a wicket-keeper, who made his first-class debut for Derbyshire in the 1899 season. However, with William Storer in place, he did not earn a regular place in the Derbyshire side until the 1902 season. Humphries was party to a dramatic finish in the second Test in Melbourne in January 1908, when as tailender he put on 34, and England won by 1 wicket to avoid a tie. His career ended with the start of the First World War.
Humphries died in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, at the age of nearly 70.
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