| George Ubsdell | |
| Country: | England |
| Birth Date: | 4 April 1845 |
| Birth Place: | Southampton, Hampshire, England |
| Death Place: | Liverpool, Lancashire, England |
| Heightft: | 5 |
| Heightinch: | 6[1] |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm roundarm medium |
| Role: | Wicket-keeper |
| Club1: | Hampshire |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 15 |
| Runs1: | 170 |
| Bat Avg1: | 6.80 |
| 100S/50S1: | –/– |
| Top Score1: | 29 |
| Hidedeliveries: | true |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 4/13 |
| Date: | 30 December |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Source: | http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22142.html Cricinfo |
George Ubsdell (4 April 1845 — 15 October 1905) was an English first-class cricketer and umpire.
Ubsdell was born at Southampton in April 1845. A professional cricketer,[1] Ubsdell made his debut in first-class cricket for Hampshire against Sussex at Southampton in 1864, which was Hampshire County Cricket Club's inaugural match in first-class cricket. He played first-class cricket for Hampshire until 1870, making fifteen appearances.[2] Playing as a wicket-keeper in the Hampshire side, he took four catches and made thirteen stumpings, an unusual statistic for a wicket-keeper in that they normally end their career with more catches than stumpings.[3] In a match against Surrey in 1865, he made five stumpings in Surrey's second innings.[4] As a batsman, he scored 170 runs at an average of 6.80, with a highest score of 29.[3] Besides playing county cricket, Ubsdell was engaged as a club cricketer at Hampton Wick (1867 and 1869), Gore Court (1868 and 1870–71), Liverpool (1872), and Childwall (1874–76). He was additionally engaged in a coaching capacity by Marlborough College and Exeter College, Oxford.[1] He was further described as a player by Haygarth in Scores and Biographies as "an excellent hitter to all parts of the field, especially to the off, bowls round-armed, middle-paced, and is also a capital wicket-keeper".[1] Following the end of his first-class career, he spent 12 years as a groundsman at Liverpool Cricket Club's Aigburth Ground.[5] Ubsdell later stood as an umpire in a first-class match between Liverpool and District and the touring Australians in 1882.[6] Ubsdell died at the Palatine Hotel in Garston, Liverpool in October 1905.[5]