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About Tom Marsden
- Thomas (Tom) Marsden (12 September 1803 – 27 February 1843) was a noted early English cricketer whose career spanned the 1826 to 1841 seasons.Born in Sheffield, Marsden was an all-rounder who batted left-handed and bowled either left-arm fast (underarm) or slow left-arm orthodox (roundarm).
- He played mostly for Sheffield Cricket Club at a time when it was representative of Yorkshire as a county and he was one of the first great Yorkshire cricketers. Marsden's known career record consists of 55 first-class matches.
- He played 99 innings and scored 1724 runs.
- He made two centuries and three fifties.
- His highest score was 227 for Sheffield & Leicester versus Nottingham at Darnall New Ground, Sheffield in 1826.
- He is believed to have been an outfielder and took 44 catches.
- As a bowler, he took 97 wickets with a best performance of seven wickets in one innings.In 1833, Marsden came up against Fuller Pilch in a single-wicket competition for the Championship of England.
- Although Pilch had little interest in such abbreviated forms of the game, he won comfortably.
- Marsden died in Sheffield in 1843.
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