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Full name | Sidney Austyn Paul Kitcat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Tetbury, Gloucestershire | 20 July 1868||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 17 June 1942 73) Esher, Surrey | (aged||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium-pace | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1890-1904 | Gloucestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 3 March 2020 |
Sidney Austyn Paul Kitcat (20 July 1868 – 17 June 1942) was an English cricketer. He played for Gloucestershire between 1890 and 1904.[1]
Life
Sidney Kitcat was the seventh child and third son of the Reverend David Kitcat, Rector of Westonbirt, near Tetbury, Gloucestershire.[2] He was educated at Marlborough College, where he captained the First XI in 1886.[3] After an incident in a school match when he was controversially dismissed, the Marylebone Cricket Club changed the Laws of Cricket to make it illegal for a bowler to bowl consecutive overs.[3]
W. G. Grace saw Kitcat playing for Marylebone Cricket Club and asked him to join Gloucestershire, Grace's county team.[3] He played as an amateur, fitting county matches in when the demands of his business allowed.[3] His highest score was 95 not out against Middlesex at Lord's in 1897.[4] Against Sussex in 1896, he and Grace, who made 301, added 193 for the ninth wicket; Kitcat made 77 not out.[5]
He was also an international hockey player.[6] In 1896 he married a widow, Mabel Murray Hickson, a writer of short stories.[3]
References
- ↑ "Sidney Kitcat". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
- ↑ "Person Page - 61006". The Peerage. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Chats on the Cricket Field: Mr. S. A. P. Kitcat", Cricket, 14 April 1898, pp. 49–50.
- ↑ "Middlesex v Gloucestershire 1897". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
- ↑ "Gloucestershire v Sussex 1896". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ↑ "Obituary: S. A. P. Kitcat", The Cricketer, 4 July 1942, p. 160.