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Cuthbert Burnup 
Personal information Full name Cuthbert James Burnup Born 21 November 1875
Blackheath, Kent, EnglandDied 5 April 1960 (aged 84)
Golders Green, Middlesex, EnglandNickname Pinky Batting style Right-handed Domestic team information Years Team 1896–1907 Kent 1899–1903 Marylebone Cricket Club 1901 London County 1895–1898 Cambridge University Career statistics Competition First-class Matches 228 Runs scored 13614 Batting average 36.79 100s/50s 26/81 Top score 200 Balls bowled 5813 Wickets 98 Bowling average 32.42 5 wickets in innings 4 10 wickets in match 0 Best bowling 6/36 Catches/stumpings 106/– Source: Cricinfo, 5 April 1960 Cuthbert James "Pinky" Burnup (21 November 1875 – 5 April 1960) was an amateur cricketer and footballer who gained fame through his participation in sports around the turn of the century. An English international footballer at only twenty years old, Burnup is more renowned as a Kent cricketer but his abilities never resulted in international selection despite immense early promise.
Burnup was born at Blackheath, Kent, the son of J M Burnup. He was educated at Malvern School and Clare College, Cambridge[1] and gained a blue in football and cricket at Cambridge University.[2] A cautious opening batsman and occasional bowler, Burnup was in the Cambridge side for three years from 1896.[3] Upon graduating from University he maintained an active interest in both sports, being selected to play for his ‘home’ county of Kent and becoming a footballer with the Corinthians going on tour with ‘Pa’ Jackson’s club to South Africa in 1896, his absence from the Kent side that year being keenly felt.[4]
Such were his abilities as a footballer, and such was the influence of the amateur game on the Football Association at the time, that Burnup was selected to represent England against Scotland in the Auld Enemy match in Glasgow on 4 April 1896.[5] However, it was a galling defeat, with England losing 2-1, that did much to signal the end of the reliance of the Football Association on amateur footballers. It was his only game for England.
His appearances for Kent coincided with their rise as the pre-eminent County side in English cricket.[6] His greatest talent lay with the willow, although he was a fair bowler. His abilities with the bat earned him considerable fame and there was clamour for an England place.[7] But this was never to be. He played for Kent until 1907, making 1,000 runs in a season eight times. His best season was 1902 when he scored 2,048 runs. He was captain of Kent in 1903 and was also named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in that year. Burnup also appears in the record books as the only first class bowler to have 10 runs scored off one ball. This happened when he was playing for MCC against Derbyshire in 1900 and bowling to Samuel Hill Wood.[8]
Burnup captained Kent CC on their North American tour of the United States in 1903[9] and later for Ashford.[10]
Burnup died at North End, Golders Green, Middlesex at the age of 84.
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References
- ^ Betts, Graham (2006). England: Player by player. Green Umbrella Publishing. p. 114. ISBN 1-905009-63-1.
- ^ Cambridge University Cricket Club - Representative Players
- ^ Burnup, Cuthbert James in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
- ^ Cricinfo - Burnup and other absent friends left Kent out in the cold
- ^ TheFA.com - Match Statistics
- ^ Band of Brothers Cricket Club
- ^ Cricinfo - Players and Officials - Pinky Burnup
- ^ Cuthbert Burnup at CricketArchive
- ^ "ENGLISH CRICKETERS WIN; Metropolitan Team Beaten at Staten Island by Big Margin. Bradley, the Fast Kent County Bowler, Does Clever Work -- Victors Led by 124 Runs". The New York Times. 2 October 1903. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F06E6DB1730E233A25751C0A9669D946297D6CF. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
- ^ History
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Sporting positions Preceded by
Jack MasonKent County Cricket Club captain
1903Succeeded by
C. H. B. MarshamCategories:- 1875 births
- 1960 deaths
- Old Malvernians
- Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge
- English footballers
- England international footballers
- English cricketers
- Cambridge University cricketers
- Kent cricketers
- Kent cricket captains
- Wisden Cricketers of the Year
- Corinthian F.C. players
- Cambridge University A.F.C. players
- Pre-1914 association football players
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