| George Street | |
| Country: | England |
| Fullname: | George Benjamin Street |
| Birth Date: | 6 December 1889 |
| Birth Place: | Charlwood, Surrey, England |
| Death Place: | Portslade, Sussex, England |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Role: | Wicket-keeper |
| International: | true |
| Onetest: | true |
| Testdebutdate: | 18 January |
| Testdebutyear: | 1923 |
| Testdebutagainst: | South Africa |
| Testcap: | 212 |
| Club1: | Sussex |
| Year1: | 1909 - 1923 |
| Club2: | Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) |
| Year2: | 1922/23 |
| Columns: | 2 |
| Column1: | Tests |
| Matches1: | 1 |
| Runs1: | 11 |
| Bat Avg1: | 11.00 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
| Top Score1: | 7* |
| Deliveries1: | - |
| Wickets1: | - |
| Bowl Avg1: | - |
| Fivefor1: | - |
| Tenfor1: | - |
| Best Bowling1: | - |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 0/1 |
| Column2: | FC |
| Matches2: | 197 |
| Runs2: | 3984 |
| Bat Avg2: | 17.24 |
| 100S/50S2: | 1/12 |
| Top Score2: | 109 |
| Deliveries2: | 105 |
| Wickets2: | 3 |
| Bowl Avg2: | 22.00 |
| Fivefor2: | 0 |
| Tenfor2: | 0 |
| Best Bowling2: | 3/26 |
| Catches/Stumpings2: | 310/119 |
| Date: | 17 December 2008 |
| Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/427/427.html CricketArchive |
George Benjamin Street (6 December 1889 – 24 April 1924) was an English cricketer who played in one Test in 1923. For his domestic side Sussex he was their regular wicket-keeper from 1912, when he succeeded Harry Butt, until his death.
Born in Charlwood, Surrey, Street made his first-class debut in 1909 against Cambridge University scoring 4 not out, batting at 10, and taking two catches.[1] He played five university matches in three seasons before he made his County Championship debut against Somerset in 1912.[2]
Street scored his maiden half-century against Gloucestershire later that season, batting at 10 he made 72 in a ninth wicket stand of 131 with Percy Fender.[3] This was Street's only fifty in eighty pre-war first-class matches.[4]
In 1921 Street scored his maiden century with an innings of 109 against Essex, sharing in a 141 run partnership with Vallance Jupp.[5] Street scored two fifties to finish the 1921 season with 617 runs at an average 21.27, the highest average of his career.[4]
Having previously been a lower-order batsman, Street was given the chance to open the innings for much of the 1922 season. This opportunity enabled him to amass his highest seasonal aggregate of 986 runs; he also took 81 dismissals.[4]
Although not originally in the squad for the tour of South Africa in 1922-23, he was summoned when Walter Livsey broke a finger against North Eastern Districts.[6] Livsey's deputy George Brown played in the first two Tests of the series before Street got his chance in the Third Test at Durban. He scored 4 in the first innings and 7 not out in the second innings (when chosen to open), he took one stumping off the bowling of county teammate Jupp.[7] Brown was preferred for the final two Tests.
Street took a county record 95 dismissals in the 1923 season,[8] and according to his Wisden obituary "he was at his best".[9] However this would be his final season.
In April 1924 Street was killed in a road accident. According to Wisden, "He was riding a motor-cycle and, in endeavouring to avoid a lorry at a cross-roads, crashed into a wall and died immediately."[9] Street was riding on the main road from Hove where he had attended a boys' football match. A brewery firm's lorry had come toward a junction, sounding its horn continuously. Street, who was driving "too fast", "reached the cross-roads, swerved, accelerated the speed and dashed into a wall". He fractured his skull. The lorry was stationary when Street passed it, and Street had more than half of the road to himself. An inquest returned a verdict of accidental death.[10]