Alexander Corbett

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Alexander Melvin Corbett was a first class cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club.

He went through his first class career of one match without scoring a run, taking a catch or bowling a ball. He played against W.G.Grace's Gloucestershire at Bramall Lane in Sheffield in July 1881, a match won by the visitors by 5 wickets thanks to fine bowling by Billy Midwinter and William Woof.

A pattern maker by trade, he played his club cricket with Elsecar Cricket Club.

He was born on November 25, 1855 in Aston Common, Rotherham and died in the same Yorkshire town on October 7, 1934 aged 78.