George Gilbert (cricketer) explained

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.

Life and career

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: George Gilbert . 30 December 2016 . ESPN Cricinfo.
  2. Web site: George Gilbert . 30 December 2016 . Cricket Archive.
  3. Web site: Victoria v New South Wales, 1855-56 . Cricinfo . 2 September 2019.
  4. New South Wales Eleven . Sydney Morning Herald . 7 October 1857 . 5 .
  5. Web site: New South Wales v Victoria, 1856/57 . Cricinfo . 6 March 2020.
  6. [A. G. Moyes]
  7. Censor . Cricket Gossip . The Sydney Mail and NSW Advertiser . 12 December 1885 . 1247 .
  8. Cricket . Referee . 20 June 1906 . 9 .