George Ubsdell Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Lillywhite, Frederick. Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket scores and Biographies. Longman. London. 1878. 378. en.
  2. Web site: First-Class Matches played by George Ubsdell. CricketArchive. 17 December 2022. subscription.
  3. Web site: First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by George Ubsdell. CricketArchive. 17 December 2022. subscription.
  4. George Ubsdell. Cricket. 26 October 1905. p. 17
  5. Web site: Wisden - Obituaries in 1905. ESPNcricinfo. 17 December 2022.
  6. Web site: George Ubsdell as Umpire in First-Class Matches. CricketArchive. 17 December 2022. subscription.