Sidney Cope

Sidney Alfred Cope (12 August 1904 – 14 April 1986) was an English professional cricketer.

Sidney Cope

Personal information
Full name	Sidney Alfred Cope
Born	12 August 1904 Hastings, Sussex
Died	14 April 1986 (aged 81) Dartford, Kent
Batting	Left-handed
Bowling	Left-arm fast-medium
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1924	Kent
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 1 Runs scored 0 Batting average 0.00 100s/50s 0/0 Top score 0 Balls bowled 42 Wickets 1 Bowling average 27.00 5 wickets in innings 0 10 wickets in match 0 Best bowling 1/27 Catches/stumpings 0/–
Source: Cricinfo, 21 August 2012

Cope was born at Hastings in Sussex, the son of Herbert and Eleanor Cope. His father was a railway porter. Cope played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1924 and 1925. After impressing with 12 wickets against Bedfordshire in his third match for the side, he was employed at the club's Tonbridge Nursery.[1]

He made one first-class cricket appearance for the county's First XI against Gloucestershire in the 1924 County Championship at Mote Park, Maidstone, taking one wicket.[2][3] He was Kent's leading Second XI wicket-taker in 1924, with 32, but played only four times the following season and was released from the Nursery at the end of 1925.[1] He was later given a trial at Warwickshire but was considered "temperamentally unsuited to a cricket career" by the county.[2]

Cope died at Dartford in Kent in 1986 aged 81.[4]

References

1. Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part Two: 1919–1939, pp.43–44. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-20.)
2. Cope, Sidney Alfred, Obituaries in 1988, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1989. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
3. Sidney Cope, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-04-21. (subscription required)
4. Sidney Cope, CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-04-21.

External links

Sidney Cope at ESPNcricinfo