Kenneth Hutchings
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| Full name | Kenneth Lotherington Hutchings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
7 December 1882 Southborough, Kent, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died |
3 September 1916 (aged 33) Ginchy, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right arm fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 155) | 13 December 1907 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 11 August 1909 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1902 – 1912 | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricinfo, 29 December 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kenneth Lotherington Hutchings (born 7 December 1882 in Southborough, Kent, and killed in action on 3 September 1916 in Ginchy, France) was a cricketer who played for Kent and England. He was educated at Tonbridge School.
Regarded as the most graceful English batsman of the so-called "Golden Age" of English cricket before the First World War, Hutchings was a member of the Kent team that won the County Championship in 1906, 1909 and 1910. He played just seven Test matches for England, with a highest score of 126 at Melbourne on the 1907/08 tour of Australia. In that innings, he reached his hundred in 126 minutes, his second fifty taking only 51 minutes.[1]
A. A. Thomson wrote of him: "Though a crabbed unemotional Northerner, I sometimes think that if one last fragment of cricket had to be preserved, as though in amber, it should be a glimpse of K. L. Hutchings cover-driving under a summer heaven."[2] According to David Denton and George Hirst, he hit the ball harder than any other player of their time (and they were contemporaries of Jessop).[3] He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1907.
References
- ↑ Ralph Barker & Irving Rosenwater, England v Australia: A compendium of Test cricket between the countries 1877-1968, B.T. Batsford, 1969, ISBN 0-7134-0317-9, p110.
- ↑ A.A. Thomson, Cricketers of My Times, Stanley Paul, 1967, p202.
- ↑ Barclay's World of Cricket - 2nd Edition, 1980, Collins Publishers, ISBN 0-00-216349-7, p388