George Pinder (cricketer)

George Pinder (15 July 1841 – 15 January 1903) was an English first-class cricketer.[1]

George Pinder
The Yorkshire County Cricket Club side in 1875. Pinder is on the left of the second row.
Personal information
Full nameGeorge Pinder Hattersley
Born(1841-07-15)15 July 1841
Ecclesfield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Died15 January 1903(1903-01-15) (aged 61)
Hickleton, Yorkshire, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingUnderarm (unknown hand) slow
RoleWicket-keeper
International information
National side
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 179
Runs scored 2,415
Batting average 10.97
100s/50s –/3
Top score 78
Balls bowled 1,144
Wickets 23
Bowling average 20.91
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling 4-56
Catches/stumpings 221/136
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His birth name was George Pinder Hattersley and he was born in Ecclesfield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. A wicket-keeper, he played for Yorkshire from 1867 to 1880,[1] and for the All-England Eleven from 1867 to 1871. He also umpired in some matches between 1873 and 1880.

He was recognised as a fine wicket-keeper, his work to the fast bowlers - at a time when keepers "stood up" (i.e. within arm's reach of the wicket) to fast bowling - being particularly impressive. He had plenty of practice, since Tom Emmett was in the same Yorkshire side. He had to deal with Emmett's famous "sostenuter", a ball pitching on the leg stump and then breaking sharply towards the off bail. He was renowned for the slickness of his stumpings of batsmen. When Tom Hearne was stumped off a leg-shooter he exclaimed: "I don't call that stumping; I call it shovelling of 'em in!"

He is believed to have been the first keeper to dispense with a long-stop, during a North v. South match in the mid or late 1870s. The idea came from his captain A. N. Hornby. Pinder was at first reluctant, but the experiment was a success. On another occasion, at The Oval, Ephraim Lockwood who was fielding long-stop said: "Nay, George, I've been behind thee for twenty-three overs and had nowt to stop. I'm off where there's summat [something] to do."

Pinder died in January 1903 in Hickleton, Yorkshire, aged 61.

Bibliography
  • A. A. Thomson, Cricket My Happiness, Sportsmans Book Club edition, 1956, p103-104

References
  1. Warner, David (2011). The Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook (113th ed.). Ilkley, Yorkshire: Great Northern Books. p. 375. ISBN 978-1-905080-85-4.
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