| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Edward Stanley Baker | |||
| Born | 9 November 1910 Moseley, Birmingham, England |
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| Died | 15 March 1992 (aged 81) Great Dunmow, Essex, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Role | wicket-keeper | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1933–1934 | Worcestershire | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | FC | |||
| Matches | 32 | |||
| Runs scored | 160 | |||
| Batting average | 6.40 | |||
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | |||
| Top score | 21* | |||
| Balls bowled | 0 | |||
| Wickets | 0 | |||
| Bowling average | - | |||
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | |||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | |||
| Best bowling | - | |||
| Catches/stumpings | 36/5 | |||
| Source: [1], 4 August 2008 | ||||
Edward Stanley Baker (9 November 1910–15 March 1992) was an English cricketer: a wicket-keeper who played 32 first-class matches for Worcestershire in the 1930s.
Baker attended, and played for, King Edward's School in Birmingham.[1] He made his first-class debut for Worcestershire against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham in 1933, taking two catches and scoring 0 and 5.[2] He appeared thrice more that summer, but took only one more catch and scored just 1 and 1 in his two remaining innings.
In 1934 Baker was Worcestershire's regular wicket-keeper, a deliberate decision made by the county to allow Bernard Quaife to play as a specialist batsman.[3] Baker played 28 times that summer, and ended the year with 38 dismissals (33 caught; five stumped), although in any single match he never claimed more than the four dismissals (all caught) he managed against Somerset in June.[4]
Baker played no first-class cricket after the 1934 season.