Bruce Lindsay Eddis (born 17 August 1883 in Calcutta, Bengal, India; died 12 May 1966 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England) was an English first-class cricketer. [1] He played several matches for the Straits Settlements, against the Federated Malay States and Hong Kong, [2] before playing a first-class match for a combined Army/Navy team at Lord's in August 1919. [3] He later played twice for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Ireland in August 1926. [2] His brother, Basil Eddis, also played first-class cricket.
Ian Terence Botham, Baron Botham, is an English cricket commentator, member of the House of Lords, a former cricketer who has been chairman of Durham County Cricket Club since 2017 and charity fundraiser.
Limited overs cricket, also known as one-day cricket or white ball cricket, is a version of the sport of cricket in which a match is generally completed in one day. There are a number of formats, including List A cricket, Twenty20 cricket, and 100-ball cricket. The name reflects the rule that in the match each team bowls a set maximum number of overs, usually between 20 and 50, although shorter and longer forms of limited overs cricket have been played.
William Bruce was an Australian cricketer who played in 14 Tests between 1885 and 1895. He became a lawyer, practising in Melbourne.
Bruce Alexander Grenfell Murray is a former Test cricketer for New Zealand who played 13 Tests as a right-handed opening batsman between 1968 and 1971. He was a school principal in the Wellington area from 1981 to 2002, and the author of several geography textbooks. Since his retirement from teaching he has been a cricket administrator in Wellington and a historian.
Michael Alexander Carberry is an English former professional cricketer who most recently played for Leicestershire County Cricket Club. Carberry is a left-handed opening batsman who bowls occasional right-arm off breaks.
Bruce Hamilton Pairaudeau was a West Indian cricketer who played in 13 Test matches between 1953 and 1957. Born in British Guiana, he moved to New Zealand in the late 1950s.
Durham MCC University is a cricket coaching centre based at Durham University in Durham, County Durham, England, and the name under which the university's cricket team plays.
The New Zealand cricket team toured England in the 1969 season to play a three-match Test series against England. The New Zealanders played in the second half of the English season: the England cricket team played three Test matches against the West Indies cricket team in the earlier part of the season, winning that series by 2–0 with one match drawn - see the article West Indian cricket team in England in 1969.
The South African cricket team toured England in the 1929 season to play a five-match Test series against England. It was the first tour since 1924, though Tests has been played between the two sides in the interim with the 1927-28 England tour of South Africa.
A Commonwealth XI cricket team toured India and Ceylon from 1 October 1950 to 6 March 1951 and played 27 first-class matches including five unofficial "test matches" against an All-India XI and one against an All-Ceylon XI.
The Straits Settlements cricket team was the team that represented the Straits Settlements in international cricket matches between 1890 and 1940.
Bruce Nicholas James Oxenford is a former Australian cricket umpire and a former cricketer. He has been an ICC international umpire since 2008, when he first umpired an ODI match. He went on to stand in his first Test match in 2010. On 26 September 2012, he was promoted to the ICC Elite Umpire Panel, the highest umpiring body in the game of cricket, replacing his fellow Australian Simon Taufel, who retired from the panel to take up a newly created ICC supervisory and training position.
Bruce de la Coeur Hylton-Stewart was a musician and schoolteacher who played first-class cricket for Somerset and Cambridge University between 1912 and 1914.
Richard James Bruce Townsend was an Australian sportsman who represented South Australia in both Australian rules football and cricket. He played for Norwood in the South Australian Football League (SAFL) and Sheffield Shield cricket for the South Australian cricket team.
Giles Nicholas Spencer Ridley is a former English cricketer. Ridley was a right-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox.
Thomas Michael John Smith is an English cricketer who plays for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club.
Thomas Oscar Bruce is an English cricketer. Bruce is a left-handed batsman who bowls slow left-arm orthodox. He was born in Bampton, Oxfordshire.
Bruce Alexander Turner was a New Zealand field hockey player and cricketer.
Sir Basil Eden Garth Eddis was an Anglo-Indian businessman from Calcutta who served as president of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1927 to 1928. He was also a keen sportsman, playing a single match of first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1908, and later representing the Burmese national side in one of its earliest matches.
Frank Masterman Garnett was an English cricketer who played at first-class level in India in the period just after World War I. He had earlier had a substantial club career for the Liverpool Cricket Club in the Liverpool and District competition, and also appeared in representative matches for Hong Kong and Burma.