Tom Armitage
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| Full name | Thomas Armitage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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25 April 1848 Walkley, Yorkshire, England |
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| Died | 21 September 1922 (aged 74) Pullman, Chicago, United States |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 1) | 15 March 1877 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 4 April 1877 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1872–1878 | Yorkshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Armitage (25 April 1848 – 21 September 1922) was an English cricketer, who played in two Tests for England. He holds the distinction, alphabetically sorted, of being the first capped England player.
Armitage was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire.
He made his first-class debut for Yorkshire against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge in 1872, opening the batting in the first innings. He failed to make much of an impression in the game, scoring 0 and 1, taking 0–19 from eight overs and taking no catches. He next appeared for Yorkshire in 1874 against a United South of England XI, but again did little.
Armitage's county cricket career took off in 1875, when he took 22 wickets in nine matches at just 7.59 apiece, including 7–27 against Derbyshire, and recorded the first of his four half-centuries, 68 not out against Surrey. In 1876, he played 12 games and claimed 45 wickets, taking 13–46 in a match against Surrey bowling underarm lobs, and making his highest first-class score, of 95, against Middlesex.
Armitage was selected for the tour of Australia that winter, and in the spring of 1877 played in the first two Test matches, both at Melbourne. He is credited with being the first player to represent England, due to alphabetical order, and is therefore number one in the order of Test caps. However, he did almost nothing, bowling only 12 balls and scoring just 33 runs in three innings, and he never played for England again.
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