Thomas Warsop

Thomas Warsop (born 29 September 1778 in Nottingham; died 28 February 1845 in Nottingham) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Nottingham Cricket Club.

Career

Thomas Warsop was one of four brothers who represented Nottingham Cricket Club. He made his first-class debut in the 1800 season and played in a total of three first-class matches to 1803.

He was a right-handed batsman but better known as a right arm slow underarm bowler. He captained the Nottingham team, but only in minor matches, before Joseph Dennis took over.

It is said that Warsop's style of bowling was copied by William Clarke Fact|date=May 2008.

Personal life

Often afflicted with gout, Warsop was "consequencely ["sic"] rather a snail between the wickets" [Quoted in http://nottinghamshireoutlaws.org/news/shownews.php/1/0/496/nottinghamshire-cricketers-:-part-1/] . He was also renowned for his gentlemanly spirit, and regarded as easily Nottingham's most svelte player. Once, after winning a wager with an opponent that Nottingham would defeat a Fuller Pilch-boosted Holt team in Norfolk, he handed back twenty fivers with the explanation that the bet was made in jest, and, anyway, he would not have anted up had he lost Fact|date=May 2008.

Warsop retired after the 1823 season. He died at his home in Pepper Street, Nottingham, at the age of sixty-five.

His cricketing brothers were Robert, William and Samuel who respectively made their first-class debuts in 1789, 1789 and 1792.

References

External sources

* [http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33643/33643.html CricketArchive record]