Tom Armitage

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Tom Armitage England (Eng)
Batting style	Right-hand bat (RHB)
Bowling type	Right-arm medium round-arm / underarm lob
	Tests	First-class
Matches	2	57
Runs scored	33	1,180
Batting average	11.00	13.88
100s/50s	0/0	0/4
Top score	21	95
Balls bowled	12	4,237
Wickets	0	121
Bowling average	N/A	14.23
5 wickets in innings	0	12
10 wickets in match	0	3
Best bowling	N/A	7/26
Catches/stumpings	0/0	23/0
Test debut: 15 March 1877 Last Test: 4 April 1877 Source: [1]

For the founder of the Royal National Institute for the Blind, see Thomas Rhodes Armitage

Thomas Armitage (born 25 April 1848 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, died 21 September 1922 in Chicago) was an English cricketer.

Armitage made his first-class debut for Yorkshire against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge in 1872, opening the batting in the first innings. He failed to make much of an impression in the game, scoring 0 and 1, taking 0-19 from eight overs and taking no catches. He next appeared for Yorkshire in 1874 against a United South of England XI, but again did little.

Armitage's county cricket career took off in 1875, when he took 22 wickets in nine matches at just 7.59 apiece, including 7-27 against Derbyshire, and recorded the first of his four half-centuries, 68 not out against Surrey. In 1876 he played 12 games and claimed 45 wickets, taking 13-46 in a match against Surrey bowling underarm lobs, and making his highest first-class score, of 95, against Middlesex.

Armitage was selected for the tour of Australia that winter, and in the spring of 1877 played in the first two Test matches, both at Melbourne. He is credited with being the first player to represent England, due to alphabetical order, and is therefore number one in the order of Test caps. However, he did almost nothing, bowling only 12 balls and scoring just 33 runs in three innings, and he never played for England again.

He played for Yorkshire for a couple of years more, achieving some success in 1877, when he took 42 wickets, but he declined in 1878 and played in only one match in 1879, for United North of England against London United. He then emigrated to the United States, and seven years after his previous game he made one final first-class appearance, for Players of United States of America against Gentlemen of Philadelphia, making 58 and taking 2-25.

Armitage died in Pullman, Chicago, at the age of 74.

[edit] External links

• Player Profile: Tom Armitage from Cricinfo
• CricketArchive page on Tom Armitage

Persondata
NAME	Armitage, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Armitage, Thomas
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Cricketer
DATE OF BIRTH	24 April 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH	21 September 1922
PLACE OF DEATH	Pullman, Chicago