James Maxwell (cricketer)

James Maxwell
Personal information
Full name James Maxwell
Born 13 January 1883(1883-01-13)
Taunton, Somerset, England
Died 27 December 1967(1967-12-27) (aged 84)
Taunton, Somerset, England
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Role All-rounder
Domestic team information
Years Team
1906–08 Somerset
1912 South Wales
First-class cricket debut 17 May 1906 Somerset v Warwickshire
Last First-class cricket 22 June 1912 South Wales v South Africans
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 11
Runs scored 218
Batting average 16.76
100s/50s –/1
Top score 67*
Balls bowled 1368
Wickets 24
Bowling average 38.20
5 wickets in innings 1
10 wickets in match
Best bowling 5/20
Catches/stumpings 6/–
Source: CricketArchive, 13 March 2011

James Maxwell (13 January 1883 – 27 December 1967) played first-class cricket for Somerset from 1906 to 1908.[1] He was born and died at Taunton, Somerset.

Maxwell was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. In first-class cricket for Somerset he tended to bat low in the batting order, but against Gloucestershire at Bath in 1906, batting at No 10, he made an unbeaten 67, his highest first-class score.[2] In eight matches for Somerset in 1906 his bowling was not successful, but when he returned for two games in 1908 he took five Lancashire wickets for 63 runs in the first innings of the match at Liverpool.[3]

From 1909, Maxwell played regularly as a professional cricketer in South Wales for the Glamorgan side, which was not then of first-class status. He appeared in 52 Minor Counties matches for Glamorgan.[4] As at Somerset, he initially batted low in the batting order, but against Surrey's second eleven in 1910, batting at No 10, he scored 108.[5] Thereafter, he often batted in the middle order. He was successful as a bowler too: for example, against the weak Carmarthenshire side in 1911, he took 13 wickets in the match for 64 runs.[6] In 1912, he played in a single first-class fixture for a South Wales cricket team against the South Africans, top-scoring in the home side's second innings.[7] He played Minor Counties cricket for Glamorgan up to the First World War, but did not reappear after the war.

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