Maurice Foster (English cricketer)
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| Full name | Maurice Kirshaw Foster | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
1 January 1889 Malvern, Worcestershire, England |
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| Died | 3 December 1940 (aged 51) Borrocop, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England |
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| Batting style | Right-hand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1908–1934 | Worcestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1924–1936 | MCC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 6 August 1908 Worcestershire v Lancashire |
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| Last First-class | 4 August 1936 MCC v Ireland |
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| Source: CricketArchive, 21 September 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maurice Kirshaw Foster (1 January 1889 – 3 December 1940) was an English cricketer who played 170 first-class matches. The great bulk of these (157) were for Worcestershire, which county he captained for three seasons from 1923 to 1925. Foster also played first-class cricket for seven other teams, including the Gentlemen and MCC. He was one of seven Foster brothers to play for Worcestershire, and one of three to captain the side.
Though not a specialist wicket-keeper, he acted as such for Worcestershire on a more than 20 occasions in the 1920s, while his strictly occasional bowling brought him three wickets, and for Worcestershire against Surrey in 1909 he dismissed Jack Hobbs for 1.
After a couple of games in Worcestershire's Second XI in 1907, Foster made his first-class debut for the county in August of the following year, against Lancashire at Worcester, and made 20 in his only innings. He played twice more that season, and ten times in 1909, but without great success. There then followed the first of several gaps in his cricketing career as a consequence of his business commitments.
Though he played occasional minor games in Malaya over the next few years, he did not return to first-class cricket until 1914, in which season he played 19 matches, all in the County Championship. In scoring 1,103 runs at 31.51, he passed a thousand runs for the first time; he also hit two hundreds: 118 against Leicestershire in May, and what was to remain a career-best 158 (in a losing cause) against Derbyshire in August.
The First World War then intervened, although Foster did play one first-class game during hostilities, in India in November 1917. This was a game staged at Calcutta between the Bengal Governor's XI (for whom Foster appeared, scoring 0 and 14) and the Maharaja of Cooch-Behar's XI. The match was staged in aid of the "Our Day" Fund. The Governor's side were bowled out for 33 and 59, losing by an innings to the Maharaja's team, who made 138. Unusually, only two bowlers were used in each of the three innings in the match.
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