Edward Sweet-Escott

Edward Sweet-Escott (July 27, 1879 — July 1, 1956) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. He was born in Brompton-Ralph and died in Penarth.

Sweet-Escott had begun playing for Glamorgan during the 1902 Minor Counties Championship season, in which he played regularly between 1904 and 1910 before taking a three-year sabbatical from the game, during which time he took up hockey, securing two Welsh caps. The 1909 season saw Sweet-Escott participate in the Minor Counties Championship final, won by opponents Wiltshire, and the following season, Glamorgan would move divisions to the South and West division, where they would find themselves playing against the team they lost to just a year before.

Three years later Sweet-Escott got back into the flow of regular Minor Counties cricket, before his chances at the game were limited by the First World War, after which he would only play one further Minor Counties fixture. However, it was during the 1921 season, a year later, when he would pick up his first and only County Championship appearance, in a defeat against Worcestershire, against whom he scored a duck in the first innings, but 13 runs in the second.

Sweet-Escott's brother-in-law was onetime Somerset cricketer William Hancock.

External links

* [http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/4/4674/4674.html Edward Sweet-Escott] at Cricket Archive