Walter Bettesworth
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman |
| Bowling type | (unknown arm) slow (roundarm) |
| First-class record | |
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| Matches | 22 |
| Runs scored | 716 |
| Batting average | 17.90 |
| 100s/50s | n/a |
| Top score | 77 |
| Balls bowled | 2,192 |
| Wickets | 38 |
| Bowling average | 25.94 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 2 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 |
| Best Bowling | 5/66 |
| Catches/Stumpings | 12/0 |
| First class debut: [[]], 1878 Last first class game: [[]], 1883 Source: [1] |
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Walter Ambrose Bettesworth (24 November 1856 – 23 February 1929) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Sussex County Cricket Club. He also played once for Scotland against the Philadelphians in 1884.[1]
He was a pupil at Ardingly College and played for them first as a pupil and later as a master from 1871 until 1882.[2]
In 1881 he headed the County batting averages, winning a silver cup donated by the Earl of Sheffield.
His three books on cricket, A Royal Road to Cricket (1891), The Walkers of Southgate (1900) and Chats on the Cricket Field (1910) are scholarly works. He was on the staff at the Cricket Field magazine from 1892 until 1895, when that publication folded. From 1896 until 1905 he was the assistant editor of Cricket, a Weekly Record of the Game and from 1906 until 1928 he was cricket editor of The Field.
[edit] References
- ^ Walter Ambrose Bettesworth. Retrieved on 2008-06-06.
- ^ Brief Profile W. A. Bettesworth. Retrieved on 2008-06-06.
