Edward Armitage (cricketer)

Infobox cricketer biography
playername = Edward Armitage
country = England
fullname = Edward Leathley Armitage
dayofbirth = 26
monthofbirth = 4
yearofbirth = 1891
placeofbirth = Omagh, County Tyrone
countryofbirth = Ireland
dayofdeath = 24
monthofdeath = 11
yearofdeath = 1957
placeofdeath = St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex
countryofdeath = England
batting = Right-handed
bowling = Right-arm medium pace
club1 = Viceroy's XI
year1 = 1933
clubnumber1 =
club2 = MCC
year2 = 1929-1931
clubnumber2 =
club3 = Europeans (India)
year3 = 1929
clubnumber3 =
club4 = Free Foresters
year4 = 1929
clubnumber4 =
club5 = Army
year5 = 1921-1929
clubnumber5 =
club6 = Hampshire
year6 = 1919-1925
type1 = First-class
debutdate1 = 13 August
debutyear1 = 1919
debutfor1 = Hampshire
debutagainst1 = Essex
lastdate1 = 6 February
lastyear1 = 1933
lastfor1 = Viceroy's XI
lastagainst1 = Roshanara Club
deliveries = balls
columns = 1
column1 = First-class
matches1 = 20
runs1 = 576
bat avg1 = 17.45
100s/50s1 = 1/1
top score1 = 105
deliveries1 = 958
wickets1 = 26
bowl avg1 = 18.30
fivefor1 = 1
tenfor1 = 0
best bowling1 = 5/67
catches/stumpings1 = 11/0
date = 15 December
year = 2007
source = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/6/6452/6452.html CricketArchive

Edward Leathley Armitage (26 April 1891 in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland – 24 November 1957 in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England) was an Irish born English cricketer, [ [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/8560.html Cricinfo profile] ] the son of John Leathley Armitage (1857-1938) and his wife Annie Jessie, née Nicholas.Fact|date=December 2007 A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he played first-class cricket for several teams between 1919 and 1933. [ [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/6/6452/6452.html CricketArchive profile] ]

Career

Armitage made his first-class debut in August 1919, for Hampshire in a County Championship match against Essex, playing three more County Championship matches that month. He played just once in 1920, against Leicestershire. In 1921 he played twice for Hampshire, against Oxford University and Kent; and twice for the Army, against Cambridge University and Oxford University. [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/6/6452/First-Class_Matches.html First-class matches played by Edward Armitage] at CricketArchive]

In 1924, after a first-class match for the Army against Cambridge University, he played two matches for the MCC against his native Ireland, in Dublin and Belfast. [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/6/6452/Other_matches.html Other matches played by Edward Armitage] at CricketArchive] He played for the Army against Oxford University and the Royal Navy in 1925, a season in which he played his final first-class match for Hampshire, against Worcestershire.

In 1926 he played for Malaya against Hong Kong and for the Straits Settlements against the Federated Malay States. He returned to English cricket in 1929, playing for the Free Foresters against Cambridge University, for the Army against the RAF and the Royal Navy, and for the MCC against Oxford University and Ireland. Later that year he played a first-class match in India as part of the Bombay Quadrangular tournament.

His final first-class matches were in 1931 for the MCC against Oxford University, and in 1933 for the Viceroy's XI against Roshanara Club in Delhi.

On 28 April 1945, in London, he married Lady Katherine Jane Elizabeth Manley, née Carnegie, daughter of the 10th Earl of Northesk, as her second husband. They had no children.Fact|date=December 2007

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