Tom Emmett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Tom Emmett

Cricket player of England.

Date of Birth: 03-Sep-1841

Place of Birth: Halifax, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 29-Jun-1904

Profession: cricketer

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Thomas Emmett (3 September 1841 – 29 June 1904) was an English cricket bowler in the late 1860s, the 1870s and the early 1880s. Born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, Emmett first joined Yorkshire when almost 25 as a professional fast left-arm bowler with a near roundarm action, though in his later years he took to bowling slow-medium.
Once discovered, however, Emmett climbed almost immediately to the top of the cricketing tree, playing for England against Surrey & Sussex in Tom Lockyer's benefit match at the Oval in 1867, his second season.
An even greater bowler, George Freeman, was approaching his best at the same time, and, from 1867 to the end of 1871, they dominated the English bowling scene.
After 1871, however, business commitments took Freeman away from first-class cricket, but Emmett stayed on and found another able colleague in the excellent Allen Hill.
In later years, Emmett shared the Yorkshire bowling duties with George Ulyett, Billy Bates, Ted Peate and Bobby Peel.
He called his most famous delivery the "sostenuter": after pitching on leg the ball would break back a long way to take the off-stump.
As time went on, Emmett's pace deserted him.