Edgar Backhouse

Edgar Norman Backhouse was a first class cricketer who made one appearance for Yorkshire in 1931 and another for the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1932. He was a right handed batsman and left arm medium pace bowler.

Playing for Yorkshire against the Rest of England in the Champion County match at the Oval in September 1931, Backhouse bowled just four overs for four runs as the Rest were bowled out for 124 by Bill Bowes and Hedley Verity. He was bowled by Voce for 2, batting at number 10 in his only innings, and was not asked to bowl again when the Rest compiled 290 second time around in a drawn game.

His second and last first class match was scarcely more successful when he turned out the following year at Lord's for M.C.C. against Kent. He was out for 0 and 1 but did take 3 wickets for 130 in Kent's mammoth 431. He beat captain Arthur Chapman to have him stumped by Franklin for 72, dismissed B.H. Valentine in the same manner for 45 and then bowled W.H. Ashdown for 7. His labours were in vain as Kent won the match by 10 wickets. This was not his first appearance at Lords as in 1927 he had taken 4 wickets playing for the Young Professionals against the Young Amateurs in a non first class fixture.

He went on to play minor county cricket for Staffordshire between 1934 and 1936.

He was born on the 13th of May 1901 at Sheriff Hutton in Yorkshire and died at the tragically young age, on the 1st of November 1936 at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.

References

* [http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/9434.html Cricinfo Profile]

* [http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/27/27586/27586.html Cricket Archive Statistics]