Oswald Wright
Oswald Walter Wright (20 March 1877 – 19 December 1933) played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1899 and Somerset in 1902.[1] He was born at Maxton, Dover, Kent and died at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Wright was educated at Malvern College and Selwyn College, Cambridge; at school he played for the first eleven at cricket and captained the soccer team.[2] He played in two first-class cricket matches as a left-arm opening bowler while at Cambridge in 1899, taking one wicket in each of them; his better bowling figures, one for 16, and his highest first-class score of 14, made as a tail-end batsman, came in the first of these, the match against Surrey.[3] He appeared in a single match for Somerset in 1902, batting at No 11 and failing to score in either innings; he bowled just two overs and did not take a wicket in this match.[4]
The Malvern Register compiled in 1904 records Wright's family as living in Wickwar, Gloucestershire and that he was employed, after graduation, as an assistant master at a preparatory school, Stone House School, Broadstairs, Kent.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ "Oswald Wright". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
- ^ a b "The Malvern Register 1865-1904". Retrieved 25 May 2011.
- ^ "Scorecard: Cambridge University v Surrey". www.cricketarchive.com. 25 May 1899. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
- ^ "Scorecard: Surrey v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 24 July 1902. Retrieved 25 May 2011.