George Pinder (cricketer)

Infobox Old Cricketer


nationality = English
country = England
country abbrev = Eng
picture = Cricket_no_pic.pngname = George Pinder
batting style = Right-handed batsman
bowling style = underarm (unknown hand) slow (also wicketkeeper)
FCs = 179
FC runs = 2415
FC bat avg = 10.97
FC 100s/50s = 0/3
FC top score = 78
FC balls = 1144
FC wickets = 23
FC bowl avg = 20.91
FC 5s = 0
FC 10s = 0
FC best bowling = 4-56
FC catches/stumpings = 221/136
debut date = 23 May
debut year = 1867
last date = 27 Aug
last year = 1881
source = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/32/32084/32084.html

George Pinder (real name George Pinder Hattersley; July 15, 1841 at Ecclesfield, Sheffield, Yorkshire – January 15, 1903 at Hickleton, Yorkshire) was an English cricketer. A wicket-keeper, he played for Yorkshire from 1867 to 1880 and for the All-England Eleven from 1867 to 1871. He also umpired in some matches between 1873 and 1880.

He was recognised as a fine wicket-keeper, his work to the fast bowlers - at a time when keepers "stood up" (ie within arm's reach of the wicket) to fast bowling - being particularly impressive. He had plenty of practice, since Tom Emmett was in the same Yorkshire side. He had to deal with Emmett's famous "sostenuter", a ball pitching on the leg stump and then breaking sharply towards the off bail. He was renowned for the slickness of his stumpings of batsmen. When Tom Hearne was stumped off a leg-shooter he exclaimed: "I don't call that stumping; I call it "shovelling of 'em in!"

He is believed to have been the first keeper to dispense with a long-stop, during a North v. South match in the mid or late 1870s. The idea came from his captain A. N. Hornby. Pinder was at first reluctant, but the experiment was a success. On another occasion, at The Oval, Ephraim Lockwood who was fielding long-stop said: "Nay, George, I've been behind thee for twenty-three overs and had nowt to stop. I'm off where there's summat [something] to do."

References

* [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/32/32084/32084.html CricketArchive]
* [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Articles/1/1237.html Brief profile by Don Ambrose]
* [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/152460.html "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack", 1972 edition, "From Tom Sueter to Alan Knott, The great wicket-keepers", by Rowland Ryder]
* "AA Thomson", "Cricket My Happiness", Sportsmans Book Club edition, 1956, p103-104.