| Personal information | ||||
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| Full name | Charles Edgar Winter | |||
| Born | 9 October 1866 Bermondsey, London, England |
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| Died | 3 April 1954 (aged 87) Northwood, Middlesex, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast | |||
| Role | Bowler | |||
| Relations | CA Winter (Son) | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1881–1895 | Somerset | |||
| FC debut | 24 July 1882 Somerset v Lancashire | |||
| Last FC | 30 May 1895 Somerset v Hampshire | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | First-class | |||
| Matches | 25 | |||
| Runs scored | 319 | |||
| Batting average | 8.62 | |||
| 100s/50s | 0/1 | |||
| Top score | 62 | |||
| Balls bowled | 2260 | |||
| Wickets | 50 | |||
| Bowling average | 22.14 | |||
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | |||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | |||
| Best bowling | 4/20 | |||
| Catches/stumpings | 11/– | |||
| Source: CricketArchive, 11 May 2010 | ||||
Charles Edgar Winter (9 October 1866 – 3 April 1954) was an English cricketer who played 25 first-class matches for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1882 and 1895. A right-arm fast bowler, he claimed 50 wickets for the county at a Bowling average of 22.14. His highest score was 62, the only occasion on which he made a half-century.[1]
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Winter played his first match for Somerset in 1879 aged just 12 in a match against Wells Cricket Club. His next matches for the then second-class county came in 1881 when he claimed three wickets against the MCC,[2] and five against Hampshire.[3] Somerset were awarded first-class status in 1882,[4] and it was in this season that Winter made his debut first-class appearance, playing for the county against Hampshire.[5] By the time of his first-class debut, Winter was still only aged 15, making him among the youngest debutants to have played first-class cricket for Somerset. Coming on to bowl at the first change of bowling, Winter claimed a wicket in his first innings, with the Hampshire captain Russell Bencraft being caught off his bowling. He was dismissed for six in both of Somerset's innings.[5] In his second match, against the MCC, Winter claimed four wickets for 49 runs in the second-innings, achieving a return that would remain his best until 1885.[6] It was another match against Hampshire in which Winter improved his bowling figures, taking four wickets for 20 runs.[7] Playing the same opposition later that season, Somerset had only travelled to Southampton for the match with nine players. After scoring 22 in the first-innings, Winter was promoted to open the second for Somerset, and scored his highest total, and only half-century, making 62 runs.[8]
His son, also named Charles Winter, subsequently also played for Somerset.