Alfred Hill (cricketer)

Infobox cricketer biography
playername = Alfred Hill
country = England
fullname = Alfred John Bostock Hill
dayofbirth = 8
monthofbirth = 4
yearofbirth = 1887
placeofbirth = Olton, Solihull, Warwickshire
countryofbirth = England
dayofdeath = 20
monthofdeath = 8
yearofdeath = 1959
placeofdeath = Okehampton, Devon
countryofdeath = England
bowling = Right-arm (Unknown style)
club1 = Warwickshire
year1 = 1920
columns = 0
date = 1 January
year = 2008
source = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/30/30230/30230.html CricketArchive

Alfred John Bostock Hill, also known as Alfred John Bostock-Hill (8 April 1887 – 20 August 1959) was an English cricketer. [ [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/14804.html Cricinfo profile] ] A right-arm bowler, he played one first-class match for Warwickshire in 1920. [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/30/30230/30230.html CricketArchive profile] ] The nephew of Warwickshire players Henry Hill [ [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/30/30237/30237.html Henry Hill] at CricketArchive] and John Hill, [ [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/30/30240/30240.html John Hill] at CricketArchive] he later had a more successful cricket career in the Far East. [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/30/30230/Other_matches.html Other matches played by Alfred Hill] at CricketArchive]

Biography

Born in Solihull in 1887, Hill played for the Warwickshire Second XI against the Worcestershire Second XI in 1910, but did not play for the first team until 1920, when he played a County Championship match against Surrey, his only first-class match. [ [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/30/30230/First-Class_Matches.html First-class matches played by Alfred Hill] at CricketArchive]

At some point in the early 1920s, he moved to the Federated Malay States and first played for the Federated Malay States cricket team in 1924 in a match against the Straits Settlements in Kuala Lumpur. In May 1926, he represented the combined Malaya cricket team against Hong Kong in Singapore, followed by matches in Kuala Lumpur for the Federated Malay States against Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements. He played for the Federated Malay States against the Straits Settlements again in 1927.

In 1929, he played for the Federated Malay States against the Straits Settlements, and for Malaya against Hong Kong and Shanghai in Hong Kong. He played three times for the Federated Malay States against the Straits Settlements in the 1930s before moving back to England. He died in Devon in 1959.

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