Edward Stocks
Personal information
Full name
Edward William Stocks
Born27 May 1856
Norwich, Norfolk, England
Died26 October 1876(1876-10-26) (aged 20)
Norwich, Norfolk, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm roundarm medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1875–1876Cambridge University
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 4
Runs scored 18
Batting average 3.60
100s/50s –/–
Top score 11
Balls bowled 32
Wickets 0
Bowling average –
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling –
Catches/stumpings 1/–
Source: Cricinfo, 26 January 2023

Edward William Stocks (27 May 1856 – 26 October 1876) was an English cricketer and athlete who played in four first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University, two each in the seasons of 1875 and 1876.[1] He was born and died at Norwich, Norfolk.

The son of the vice-master of the King's College Grammar School at Norwich, Stocks was educated after the death of his father at the Clergy Orphans' School, Canterbury and at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.[2] As a cricketer, he was a right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler in the roundarm style.[1] He had little success in his matches for Cambridge University, scoring just 18 runs in five innings and failing to take a wicket in eight overs, and he was not picked for the University Match against Oxford University in either of his two first-class seasons.[1] He did, however, win a Blue in athletics in both 1875 and 1876, competing in the long jump.[2]

Stocks' final cricket match of minor status was for Norfolk against Suffolk in August 1876, when he opened both the batting and the bowling.[3] He died two months after this game, at the age of just 20.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Edward Stocks". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  2. 1 2 J. Venn and J. A. Venn. "Alumni Cantabrigienses: Edward William Stocks". www.archive.org/Cambridge University Press. p. 48. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Suffolk v Norfolk". www.cricketarchive.com. 23 August 1876. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
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