Herbert Knutton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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English cricketer
Date of Birth: 14-Jun-1867
Place of Birth: Coventry, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 12-Dec-1946
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Herbert Knutton
- Herbert John Knutton (14 June 1867 – 12 December 1946) was an English cricketer.
- Knutton was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast.
- He was born at Coventry, Warwickshire. Knutton made a single first-class appearance for Warwickshire against Nottinghamshire at Edgbaston in 1894.
- Nottinghamshire won the toss and elected to bat, making 238 in their first-innings, during which Knutton bowled twenty wicketless overs.
- Responding in their first-innings, Warwickshire made 248 all out, with Knutton being dismissed by Richard Hardstaff for 4 runs.
- In their second-innings, Nottinghamshire made 146 all out, during which he bowled six overs.
- Warwickshire reached 97/4 in their second-innings, at which point the match was declared a draw.
- It was in this same year that he first played in the Lancashire League for Enfield, making a single appearance for the club.
- The following season he also made another appearance for Enfield in the league, before making a third and final appearance for the club in 1903.The year previous to that Knutton had been playing in the Bradford League when he was selected to play a hastily arranged first-class fixture for an England XI (which contained one former Test player in Willie Quaife) against the touring Australians at Park Avenue, Bradford.
- The fixture had only come about after the Coronation of King Edward VII had been postponed after the King had developed appendicitis, allowing a fixture to be played on the day in which the King would have been crowned.
- Winning the toss and electing to bat first, the Australians made 402 all out in their first-innings.
- Knutton, who was the only fast bowler in the side, finished with figures of 9/100, including taking the first eight Australian wickets to fall: Trumper, Noble, Hill, Darling, Hopkins, Duff, Armstrong, and Carter, before taking the final wicket to fall, that of Saunders.
- Despite this, the Australians were still able to amass a large total, mostly down to Duff's 182.
- Responding in their first-innings, the England XI made 240 all out, with Knutton being dismissed by Noble for 8 runs.
- Forced to follow-on, the England XI were dismissed for 203, with Knutton contributing being dismissed for 5 runs by the same bowler.
- Requiring 41 for victory, the Australians reached their target with three wickets down, one of which (Darling's) fell to Knutton.
- He finished with match figures of 10/117.
- He never appeared in first-class cricket again, but did continue to play in the Bradford League, where he took thousands of wickets.
- However, his high-arm brisk bowling action was sometimes regarded as suspect.He worked outside of cricket as an athletic outfitter.
- He died at Heaton, Yorkshire, on 12 December 1946.
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