- Tom Marsden
Thomas (Tom) Marsden (born 1805 in
Sheffield ; died27 February 1843 in Sheffield) was a famous Englishcricket er whose career spanned the 1826 to 1841 seasons.Marsden was an all-rounder who batted lefthanded and bowled either left-arm fast (underarm) or slow left-arm orthodox (roundarm). He played mostly for
Sheffield Cricket Club at a time when it was representative of Yorkshire as a county and he was one of the first great Yorkshire cricketers.Marsden's known career record consists of 55 first-class matches. He played 99 innings and scored 1724 runs. He made two centuries and three fifties. His highest score was 227 for [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/0/433.html Sheffield & Leicester versus Nottingham] at Darnall New Ground, Sheffield in 1826. He is believed to have been an outfielder and took 44 catches. As a bowler, he took 97 wickets with a best performance of seven wickets in one innings.
In 1833, Marsden came up against
Fuller Pilch in a single-wicket competition for the Championship of England. Although Pilch had little interest in such abbreviated forms of the game, he won comfortably.References
External sources
* [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/31/31238/31238.html CricketArchive record of Tom Marsden]
Further reading
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Arthur Haygarth , "Scores & Biographies, Volume 2-3 (1827-1848)", Lillywhite, 1862
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