John Burman

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John Burman was a first class cricketer who played one match for Yorkshire County Cricket Club, scoring a duck and a vital 1* against Cambridgeshire at Queens Park Wisbech in 1867. That was his only first class run, and his only contribution to the game, but it was a heroic innings as he was last man in and helped Joseph Rowbotham take the score from a parlous 76 for 9 to the 91 they needed to complete a nail biting one wicket win.

He umpired the Roses match at Old Trafford in 1875.

He was born on October 5, 1838 in Bramham cum Oglethorpe, Yorkshire and died, aged 61, on May 14, 1900 in Halton, Leeds.