Walter Bettesworth

Infobox Old Cricketer


nationality = English
country = England
country abbrev = Eng
name = Walter Bettesworth
picture = Cricket_no_pic.pngbatting style = Right-handed batsman
bowling style = (unknown arm) slow (roundarm)
FCs = 22
FC runs = 716
FC bat avg = 17.90
FC 100s/50s = n/a
FC top score = 77
FC balls = 2,192
FC wickets = 38
FC bowl avg = 25.94
FC 5s = 2
FC 10s = 0
FC best bowling = 5/66
FC catches/stumpings = 12/0
debut date =
debut year = 1878
last date =
last year = 1883
source = http://content-www.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/9728.html

Walter Ambrose Bettesworth (24 November 1856 – 23 February 1929) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Sussex County Cricket Club. He also played once for Scotland against the Philadelphians in 1884. [cite web|title=Walter Ambrose Bettesworth
url=http://www.cricketeurope4.net/CSTATZ/saltires/bio/B/bettesworth_wa.html|accessdate=2008-06-06]

He was a pupil at Ardingly College and played for them first as a pupil and later as a master from 1871 until 1882. [cite web|title=Brief Profile W. A. Bettesworth
url=http://www.pcboard.com.pk/Archive/Articles/0/624.html|accessdate=2008-06-06]

In 1881 he headed the County batting averages, winning a silver cup donated by Edward Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley.

His three books on cricket, A Royal Road to Cricket (1891), The Walkers of Southgate (1900) and Chats on the Cricket Field (1910) are scholarly works. He was on the staff at the Cricket Field magazine from 1892 until 1895, when that publication folded. From 1896 until 1905 he was the assistant editor of Cricket, a Weekly Record of the Game and from 1906 until 1928 he was cricket editor of The Field.

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External links

* [http://content-www.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/9728.html Career statistics - Walter Bettesworth]