Walter Wright (cricketer)
Walter Wright
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| Full name | Walter Wright | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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26 February 1856 Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire, England |
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| Died | 22 May 1940 (aged 84) Leigh, Lancashire, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Left-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Thomas Shooter (uncle) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1904 | Berkshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1888-1899 | Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1886 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1879-1886 | Nottinghamshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 24 September 2010
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Walter Wright (29 February 1856 — 22 March 1940, born Walter Shooter) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-fast bowler. He was born in Hucknall Torkard and died in Leigh, Lancashire.
Wright's began playing County cricket in the 1879 season, representing Nottinghamshire for the first seven years of his career, having played his first professional game at the age of seventeen for the Notts Bank club, having been a creditable sprinter during his youth, as well as a football trainer.
Wright made his first-class debut against Lancashire, scoring a duck in his first innings, but bowling economically, conceding just twelve runs from five overs. He played four further matches during the 1879 season, his final game coming against Gloucestershire in which he scored a first-innings duck. Wright waited over nine months until his next first-class fixture, and between the following two, over a year, as he played for Gentlemen of Canada for the entirety of the 1880 season. When he returned for the team, having attended several games for Gentlemen of Canada, he immediately hit a poor patch of form, he continued in the lower-order for the rest of the year.
The English summer of 1882 saw an Australian tour of England, climaxing in a single Test in August, in which Wright played a single game, though he was immediately dropped to the tailend after this fixture, under pressure from an improving Alfred Shaw, the team's captain for four seasons as of 1883. However, this pressure spurred Wright to improve his stamina over the long game, and he appeared for the first time as a permanent fixture in the Nottinghamshire team, as well as playing in several special fixtures, including one for a WG Grace XI and one for North vs. South of England. The following year saw another tour by Australia, in which, after a stream of good form, Wright once again played. While 1886 saw further good form from Wright which saw him play in an England XI against Australia, this was to prove his final fixture for nearly two years. He had taken 193 wickets bowling for Nottinghamshire in county matches.
By the time of his return, in June 1888, Wright had moved to Kent, where, within his first month at the club, he was already being selected once again for North vs. South of England matches, as well as various Gentlemen vs. Players and selected elevens. Come 1890, the inaugural season of the newly formed County Championship, Wright was once again a fixture as a bowler, supported by Test cricketer Fred Martin. A steady performer in the first league season, Kent finished in equal-third position in the table, while Wright was one of only five Kent players who played in all fourteen games of the season, managing also to play all but one game in 1891, and again in 1892.
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