Arthur Edward Ochse, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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South African cricketer
Date of Birth: 11-Mar-1870
Place of Birth: Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Date of Death: 11-Apr-1918
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: South Africa
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Arthur Edward Ochse
- Arthur Edward Ochse (11 March 1870 in Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony, South Africa – 11 April 1918 at Messines Ridge, France), played Test cricket in the first matches played by the South African team in 1888–89. A middle-order batsman, Ochse, like the rest of the side, made his first-class debut in his country's very first Test match, which was played against England at Port Elizabeth.
- At 19 years and 1 day old, he was South Africa's youngest Test debutant (a record since surpassed) and he retained his place for the second Test played two weeks later.
- But like so many of his teammates, his inexperience against such good opposition showed.
- In four innings against Major Warton's team, Ochse scored just 16 runs as England ran out comprehensive winners in South Africa's first two representative matches played on level terms.
- During the second innings of the second Test, played at Cape Town, Ochse was bowled by England's slow left arm spinner, Johnny Briggs.
- And by so being, along with seven of his teammates, all of them bowled, he became one of Briggs' eight victims in a then Test record of eight wickets for 11 runs in an innings (and 15 for 28 in a match).
- Domestically, he played occasionally for Transvaal, once in 1891 and twice more in 1895.
- In the match against Kimberley played at Johannesburg in the Currie Cup season of 1890/91, he was unlucky to miss out on a maiden century when, in the second innings, he fell one run short of that respectable milestone.
- By scoring 45 runs in Transvaal's first innings and taking 2 wickets for 27 runs in Kimberley's first innings (2 for 75 in the match), this match proved to be the height of Ochse's cricketing achievements.
- Killed on the Western Front during Germany's 1918 Spring Offensive, his death went unrecorded at the time.
- Therefore, no obituary appeared within the covers of Wisden for him.
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