| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Basil Frederick Clarke | |||
| Born | 26 September 1885 Madras, India |
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| Died | 4 May 1940 (aged 54) Hove, Sussex, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Role | Batsman | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1922 | Leicestershire | |||
| 1919-1920 | Army | |||
| 1914-1920 | Gloucestershire | |||
| 1919 | HDG Leveson-Gower's XI | |||
| First-class debut | 23 July 1914 Gloucestershire v Nottinghamshire | |||
| Last First-class | 8 July 1922 Leicestershire v Hampshire | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | First-class | |||
| Matches | 20 | |||
| Runs scored | 349 | |||
| Batting average | 12.03 | |||
| 100s/50s | 1/0 | |||
| Top score | 108* | |||
| Balls bowled | 18 | |||
| Wickets | 0 | |||
| Bowling average | - | |||
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | |||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | |||
| Best bowling | 0/24 | |||
| Catches/stumpings | 10/0 | |||
| Source: CricketArchive, 20 April 2008 | ||||
Basil Frederick Clarke (26 September 1885–4 May 1940) was an Indian-born English cricketer.[1] A right-handed batsman, he played county cricket for Gloucestershire and Leicestershire[2] and also played twice for the Egypt national cricket team.[3]
Born in Madras in 1885,[2] Basil Clarke made his first-class debut for Gloucestershire in a County Championship match against Nottinghamshire during the 1914 English cricket season. He played two further county championship matches, against Lancashire and Yorkshire, that season.[4]
His cricket career was interrupted by the First World War, and he returned to first-class cricket for the 1919 season, when he played four County Championship matches for Gloucestershire. He also played first-class matches for Gloucestershire against Worcestershire and the touring Australian Imperial Forces team in addition to a match for the Army against the Royal Navy at Lord's and a match for HDG Leveson-Gower's XI against Oxford University during the season.[4]
He played three County Championship matches for Gloucestershire in 1920, in addition to a match for the Army against Oxford University. He moved to play for Leicestershire for the 1922 season, playing five County Championship matches in his last year of first-class cricket.[4]
He played twice for the Egypt national side against Free Foresters in April 1927.[3] He scored just one first-class century in his career,[2] an unbeaten 108 against Hampshire[5] in 1919.[6] He died in Sussex in 1940.[2]