Edward Baker (Worcestershire cricketer)
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| Full name | Edward Stanley Baker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
9 November 1910 Moseley, Birmingham, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died |
15 March 1992 (aged 81) Great Dunmow, Essex, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1933–1934 | Worcestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: , 4 August 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Edward Stanley Baker (9 November 1910 – 15 March 1992) was an English cricketer: a wicket-keeper who played 32 first-class matches for Worcestershire in the 1930s.
Baker attended, and played for, King Edward's School in Birmingham.[1] He made his first-class debut for Worcestershire against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham in 1933, taking two catches and scoring 0 and 5.[2] He appeared thrice more that summer, but took only one more catch and scored just 1 and 1 in his two remaining innings.
In 1934 Baker was Worcestershire's regular wicket-keeper, a deliberate decision made by the county to allow Bernard Quaife to play as a specialist batsman.[3] Baker played 28 times that summer, and ended the year with 38 dismissals (33 caught; five stumped), although in any single match he never claimed more than the four dismissals (all caught) he managed against Somerset in June.[4]
Baker played no first-class cricket after the 1934 season.
Notes
- ↑ "King Edward's School Birmingham v Bromsgrove School in 1927". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
- ↑ "Gloucestershire v Worcestershire in 1933". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
- ↑ Obituary. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1993.
- ↑ "Worcestershire v Somerset in 1934". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2008-08-04.