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Full name | Charles Harold Titchmarsh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 18 February 1881 Royston, Hertfordshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 23 May 1930 Royston, Hertfordshire, England | (aged 49)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1924 | Minor Counties | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1920–1928 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1900–1929 | Hertfordshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 11 October 2015 |
Charles Harold Titchmarsh (18 February 1881 – 23 May 1930) was an English cricketer active in first-class cricket from 1920 to 1928, but was mostly associated with minor counties cricket where he played for Hertfordshire.
Early life
[edit]Born at Royston, Hertfordshire, Titchmarsh was educated at the Nonconformist College at Bishop's Stortford, where he spent two years in the cricket XI.[1] He made his debut for Hertfordshire in the 1900 Minor Counties Championship against Cambridgeshire at Fenner's.[2] Titchmarsh played just once for the county in 1900, while the following year he made four appearances.[2] He met with success in 1906, averaging 44, and up until the 1914 season he had only one poor season, in 1909 when he scored only 141 runs in seventeen innings.[1] In all matches in 1913 (most of them club matches, and none of them first-class) he scored 4016 runs at an average of 62.75, with 21 centuries.[3]
First-class cricket
[edit]Titchmarsh played for Hertfordshire following the First World War, and in 1920 he made his debut in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against the British Army at Lord's.[4] He played matches for MCC in 1921 and 1922,[4] as well as being selected to play for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players fixtures at The Oval in the same seasons.[1] He toured Australia and New Zealand in late 1922 and early 1923 under the leadership of Archie MacLaren,[1] playing fifteen first-class matches against Australian state and New Zealand provincial sides,[4] during which he scored 887 runs.[5] He played for the East of England cricket team against the touring New Zealanders in 1927, while in the following season he played his final first-class match for MCC against Derbyshire.[4] Titchmarsh made his final appearance for Hertfordshire in 1929, averaging 51 in what would be his final season with the county.[1] He made a total of 182 appearances for Hertfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship from 1900–1929.[2]
Titchmarsh was described by Wisden as possessing "a neat style of batting and strong defence, having, moreover, most of the scoring strokes at his command."[1] He played most of his first-class cricket for MCC, making 36 of his 42 appearances for them.[6] He scored 2,260 runs for MCC, averaging 41.85, making a century score four times, with a highest score of 171.[6] His overall first-class career saw him score 2,589 runs at an average of 39.22.[7]
Personal life
[edit]He died from a stroke at Royston on 23 May 1930.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Obituaries in 1930". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. 1931. Retrieved 11 October 2015 – via ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ a b c "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Charles Titchmarsh". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
- ^ "Pavilion Gossip", Cricket, 18 October 1913, pp. 671–72.
- ^ a b c d "First-Class Matches played by Charles Titchmarsh". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
- ^ "First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Charles Titchmarsh". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
- ^ a b "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Charles Titchmarsh". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
- ^ "Player profile: Charles Titchmarsh". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
External links
[edit]- Charles Titchmarsh at ESPNcricinfo
- Charles Titchmarsh at CricketArchive