Francis Baines

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Francis Edmund Baines was a first class cricketer who played in the drawn 1888 Roses match for Yorkshire County Cricket Club against Lancashire County Cricket Club at Bramhall Lane Sheffield. A right handed batsman and right arm medium fast bowler, Baines was bowled for a duck by Napier and not called upon to bowl. This was to be his only first class game.

He was born on June 18, 1864 in Ecclesall, Sheffield and died on November 17, 1948 in Workshop, Nottinghamshire at the age of 84.

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