Arthur Bannister, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Arthur Bannister

English cricketer

Date of Birth: 18-Jun-1875

Place of Birth: Somers Town, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 17-Nov-1958

Profession: cricket umpire, cricketer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Arthur Bannister

  • Arthur Frederick Bannister (18 June 1875 – 17 November 1958) was an English cricketer: a right arm slow bowler who played 38 times for Worcestershire between 1900 and 1902. Born in Somers Town, London, Bannister made his first-class debut on 7 May 1900 against Yorkshire.
  • Although Worcestershire lost by an innings, Bannister made an immediate impact, taking 5-30 in the Yorkshire first innings; his first victim was Test cricketer Ted Wainwright, and he also claimed the scalps of three other England players including Yorkshire captain Lord Hawke.
  • However, his achievement was rather overshadowed by Yorkshire's Wilfred Rhodes, who took 7-20 in Worcestershire's second innings. Two matches later, against Hampshire, Bannister enjoyed what was to remain his best bowling performance, when he turned in an outstanding innings analysis of 20.4-8-29-7; 1900 was the first year in which six-ball overs were used in England.
  • Another excellent effort came in August, when he took five wickets in each innings (his only ten-wicket match haul) against Kent, despite his county slipping to a 231-run defeat.
  • Bannister ended the season with 65 wickets at 20.47 to top the county's bowling averages.1901 was a rather less successful season for Bannister: he picked up only 26 wickets in 15 games at an average of more than 31, and never managed more than four wickets in an innings.
  • He did however manage his highest score with the bat when he hit 44 in the first innings against the touring South Africans in July; his part in a ninth-wicket stand of 60, as well as his unbeaten 15 in the second innings, proved crucial as the game ended in a tie, with South Africans' Robert Graham taking a career-best 8-90. After that summer, he was to play only two more first-class games, with his final appearance coming against Yorkshire in July 1902; he took only a single wicket, that of Irving Washington.
  • Later in life he became an umpire, altogether standing in 20 first-class matches in 1910 and 1911. He died in Islington, London at the age of 83.

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