William Page (cricketer)

William Page (April 29, 1847 — September 27, 1904) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Derbyshire between 1881 and 1882. He was born in Caverswall and died in Rose Hill.

Page began his cricketing career with a debut against Lancashire. Page finished the match having scored a duck in his debut innings from the opening order, and in the second innings, being pushed down the order to gain form, which to a small extent he managed, finishing the second-highest scorer in his second innings, behind John Platts, who contributed nearly 50% of the innings total.

Aside from a match against Marylebone Cricket Club in 1882, which Derbyshire lost by what was, for sixteen years, their biggest margin of defeat in first-class history, Page played just one further match in his County career, in which he finished out for a duck in the first innings, though his form saw him out as joint-highest scorer in the second, before falling to the bowling of England Test cricketer Billy Bates.

Page's cricketing career came to a premature end in 1882, when he lost his sight in one eye. He died in 1904 at the age of 57.

External links

* [http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31852/31852.html William Page] at Cricket Archive