John Frame (cricketer)

John Frame (1733 – 11 October 1796) was an English cricketer who played during the second half of the 18th century. He was described as one of the "most famous bowler[s] of his day"[1] and as a bowler of "great renown".[2]

Frame was born at Warlingham in Surrey. He is first known to have played significant cricket in 1749, playing for a Surrey side against an England XI at Dartford Brent at the age of 16 and played until 1774.[3] Frame was a bowler and F S Ashley-Cooper, writing in 1900, described his as a "fine fast bowler",[4] grouping him alongside Richard Newland, David Harris and John Small as a cricketer who, if statistics from the 18th century existed, would be judged alongside Cooper's contemporary cricketers.[5] John Nyren, writing in the 1830s, considered him as one of the Hambledon Club’s usual opponents, describing him as "an unusually stout man for a cricketer", although he also wrote that "I recollect very little of him, and nothing worthy of a formal record".[6]

In 1750 Frame played for Surrey in three matches against Kent sides alongside his brother.[7] By this time he was living at Dartford in Kent and played in a single wicket match in 1754 in London.[1] Frame continued playing until the 1770s and appeared in seven matches which are considered to have first-class cricket status between 1772 and 1774.[8][9] He died at Dartford in 1796 aged 64.[4][8]

References
  1. Haygarth, Arthur. Memoirs of the Old Cricketers  – via Wikisource.
  2. Pycroft, James. The Hambledon Club and the Old Players  – via Wikisource.
  3. F S Ashley-Cooper (1900) At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742-1751, Cricket: a weekly record of the game, 1900, p.53. London: Merritt and Hatcher.
  4. Ashley-Cooper, p.84.
  5. Ashley-Cooper, p.4.
  6. Nyren, John. The Cricketers of My Time  – via Wikisource.
  7. Ashley-Cooper, p.68.
  8. John Frame, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  9. John Frame, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-07-04. (subscription required)
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