Francis Huish
Personal information
Full name
Francis Edward Huish
Born(1867-12-09)9 December 1867
Clapham, Surrey
Died8 December 1955(1955-12-08) (aged 87)
Los Angeles, California
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingLeft arm medium
RelationsFred Huish (brother)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1895Kent
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 5
Runs scored 32
Batting average 8.00
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 12
Balls bowled 745[upper-alpha 1]
Wickets 11
Bowling average 39.36
5 wickets in innings 1
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 5/52
Catches/stumpings 3/–
Source: CricInfo, 30 August 2016

Francis Edward Huish (9 December 1867 – 8 December 1955) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club during the 1895 English cricket season. He was born in Clapham in what was then Surrey in 1867 and died in Los Angeles, California in 1955.[1][2]

Huish played as a bowler who appeared in five first-class matches.[1] He made his first-class debut for Kent at Maidstone against Oxford University in June 1895 before going on to play in four County Championship matches for the county during July.[3] His final first-class appearance was against Surrey at Catford.[3]

Huish played one non-first-class match for Surrey in the 1888 season before appearing for Surrey Second XI and Surrey Club and Ground between 1889 and 1891.[4] He appeared twice for the Players of Kent in 1892 before playing in four matches for the Kent Second XI between 1894 and 1896.[4]

Huish's younger brother, Fred Huish, also made his first-class debut for Kent in June 1895[5] before going on to make over 450 first-class appearances for the county, making his final appearance in 1914. He is regarded as "one of the ablest and least demonstrative wicket-keepers of his generation"[6] and remains the record holder for most dismissals in a career for Kent.[7]

Huish emigrated to America in 1910 with his wife Ella. He became a naturalised US citizen in Pennsylvania in 1922.[8][9]

Notes

  1. ↑ CricInfo and CricketArchive disagree as to the number of deliveries bowled by Huish. Given that 5-ball overs were standard in England in 1895, the CricketArchive figure of 747 deliveries matches the scorecard data on the same website. The CricInfo data would approximately match if 4 ball overs were standard. The CricketArchive data has been used for deliveries here.

References

  1. 1 2 Francis Huish, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-08-30.
  2. ↑ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 272–273. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
  3. 1 2 First-class matches played by Francis Huish, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-08-30.
  4. 1 2 Miscellaneous matches played by Francis Huish, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-08-30.
  5. ↑ First-class matches played by Fred Huish, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-08-30.
  6. ↑ Fred Huish - Obituary, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1959. Retrieved 2016-08-30.
  7. ↑ Most victims in a career for Kent, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-08-30.
  8. ↑ Francis Edward Huish in the Pennsylvania, Federal Naturalization Records, 1795-1931, Ancestry.com. Retrieved 2016-08-30.
  9. ↑ Francis Edward Huish, MyHeritage. Retrieved 2016-08-30.
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