Country: | England |
Fullname: | Thomas Flowers |
Birth Date: | 25 October 1868 |
Birth Place: | Daybrook, Nottinghamshire, England |
Death Place: | Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Bowling: | Right-arm slow-medium |
Family: | Wilfred Flowers (cousin) |
Club1: | Nottinghamshire |
Year1: | 1894 |
Umpire: | true |
Fcumpired: | 187 |
Umpfcdebutyr: | 1914 |
Umpfclastyr: | 1926 |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 1 |
Runs1: | 16 |
Bat Avg1: | 8.00 |
100S/50S1: | –/– |
Top Score1: | 11 |
Deliveries1: | 30 |
Wickets1: | – |
Bowl Avg1: | – |
Fivefor1: | – |
Tenfor1: | – |
Best Bowling1: | – |
Catches/Stumpings1: | –/– |
Date: | 20 February |
Year: | 2013 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/13101.html Cricinfo |
Thomas Flowers (25 October 1868 – 26 March 1939) was an English cricketer and umpire. Flowers was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm slow-medium. He was born at Daybrook, Arnold, Nottinghamshire.
Flowers made a single first-class appearance for Nottinghamshire against Gloucestershire in the 1894 County Championship at the Spa Ground, Gloucester.[1] In a match which Gloucestershire won by 43 runs, he scored 5 runs in Nottinghamshire's first-innings before being dismissed by Herbert Brown, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 11 runs by W. G. Grace.[2] He also played extensively in the Lancashire League for Church Cricket Club, making 324 appearances between 1893 and 1908.[3] He also had an extensive career as an umpire, first standing in a first-class match in 1914. He continued to umpire in first-class cricket after the First World War, umpiring in 187 matches to 1926.[4]
He died at Nottingham, Nottinghamshire on 26 March 1939. His cousin Wilfred Flowers played Test cricket for England.