George Gilbert | |
Country: | England |
Fullname: | George Henry Bailey Gilbert |
Birth Date: | 2 September 1829 |
Birth Place: | Cheltenham, England |
Death Place: | Summer Hill, Sydney, Australia |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Bowling: | Right-arm medium |
Club1: | New South Wales |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 18 |
Runs1: | 283 |
Bat Avg1: | 8.32 |
100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
Top Score1: | 31 |
Deliveries1: | 262 |
Wickets1: | 28 |
Bowl Avg1: | 10.00 |
Fivefor1: | 2 |
Tenfor1: | 1 |
Best Bowling1: | 6/65 |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 13/ - |
Date: | 6 March 2020 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/5388.html Cricinfo |
George Henry Bailey Gilbert (2 September 1829 - 16 June 1906) was an English cricketer.
Gilbert was born in Cheltenham. He was the elder brother of Walter Gilbert and a cousin of E. M., W. G. and Fred Grace. He made six first-class cricket appearances in 1851 including two for Middlesex and one for the Gentlemen against the Players. He emigrated to Australia in 1852. He played in 12 first-class matches for New South Wales, all of them against Victoria, over a 19-year period from March 1856 to March 1875.[1] [2] He captained New South Wales to victory over Victoria in their inaugural first-class match, and for several seasons afterwards.[3]
In 1857 the Australian Cricketer's Guide said of him:
His batting is very effective, but wanting in finish, and he would do more if not so fond of hitting to leg. Is a good change round-arm bowler. His fielding is good, and would be rendered much more elegant if he curbed his sometimes too exuberant spirits.[4]
Gilbert made the top score of the match when New South Wales beat Victoria in Sydney in 1856-57, 31 in the second innings.[5] The next season he took the first hat-trick in Australian first-class cricket, though it did not prevent Victoria from winning.[6]
Gilbert later spent some time in New Zealand, where he struggled financially.[7] A tobacconist by preference, he also worked as surveyor, clerk, station master and timber worker to feed his nine children.[1] He was also at one stage the groundsman for the cricket ground in the Sydney suburb of Burwood, and later fossicked for gold at Fish River, near Bathurst.[8]
Gilbert died in June 1906 at his daughter's house in the Sydney suburb of Summer Hill after being ill for four months.[8]