{{short description|English cricketer}} {{distinguish|Arthur Lange}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}} {{Use British English|date=February 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | country = England | fullname = Arthur Horace Lang | image = Lieutenant Arthur Horace Lang.jpg | caption = Lang as a Grenadier Guards officer. | nickname = | birth_date = 25 October 1890 | birth_place = Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British Raj | death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|1|25|1890|10|25|df=yes}} | death_place = Missing in action near Cuinchy, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France | heightft = | heightinch = | heightm = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | role = Wicket-keeper | family = | club1 = Cambridge University | year1 = 1912–1913 | clubnumber1 = | club2 = Sussex | year2 = 1911–1913 | clubnumber2 = | club3 = Suffolk | year3 = 1907–1911 | clubnumber3 = | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 22 | runs1 = 830 | bat avg1 = 22.43 | 100s/50s1 = 2/2 | top score1 = 141 | deliveries1 = – | wickets1 = – | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1 = 17/16 | date = 9 December | year = 2013 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/16450.html ESPNcricinfo }}
'''Arthur Horace Lang''' (25 October 1890 – 25 January 1915) was an English cricketer active in the first decade of the 1900s and in the first years of the following decade, making over twenty appearances in first-class cricket. Born at Bombay in the British Raj, Lang was a right-handed batsman who played as a wicket-keeper.
==Cricket career== Lang was educated at Harrow School, where he captained the school cricket team in 1908 and 1909.<ref name="OBIT">{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/229821.html|title=Wisden - Obituaries in 1915|date=16 December 2005 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=10 December 2013}}</ref> A year prior to captaining the school, Lang had made his debut in county cricket for Suffolk against Hertfordshire in the 1907 Minor Counties Championship, with him making two further appearances for the county in that season.<ref name="MCM">{{cite web |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30869/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Arthur Lang|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=9 December 2013}}</ref> He followed this up by playing three matches for Suffolk in 1908, but played only one match each in 1909 and 1910.<ref name="MCM"/> He played three further matches for the county in the 1911 Minor Counties Championship, the last of which came against Norfolk.<ref name="MCM"/>
In May 1911, Lang made his debut in first-class cricket for Sussex against Cambridge University at Fenner's, in what was his only first-class appearance of that season.<ref name="FCM">{{cite web |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30869/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Arthur Lang|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=9 December 2013}}</ref> He played six first-class matches for Sussex in 1912, as well as making his debut ''for'' Cambridge University (where he was at Trinity College<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205384251 |title=Lieutenant Arthur Horace Lang |publisher=Imperial War Museum}}</ref>) against the Marylebone Cricket Club.<ref name="FCM"/> Lang secured his place in the Cambridge side in 1913, displacing the incumbent wicket-keeper Walter Franklin who the Cambridge selectors considered an inferior batsman to Lang.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228446.html|title=Obituaries - 1968|work=Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|date=4 December 2005 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=9 December 2013}}</ref> He played seven first-class matches for the university in 1913, as well as six for Sussex, most of which came in the latter stages of the County Championship.<ref name="FCM"/> He made what would be a final appearance in first-class cricket for L. G. Robinson's XI in 1914.<ref name="FCM"/> In a total of 22 first-class appearances, Lang scored 830 runs at an average of 22.43, with a high score of 141, while behind the stumps he took seventeen catches and made sixteen stumpings.<ref>{{cite web |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30869/30869.html|title=Player profile: Arthur Lang|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=10 December 2013}}</ref> He made two centuries in first-class cricket, both for Sussex.<ref>{{cite web |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30869/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Arthur Lang|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=10 December 2013}}</ref>
==War service and disappearance== With the onset of the First World War, Lang enlisted in the British Army and served with the Grenadier Guards with the rank of second lieutenant.<ref name="OBIT"/> He was reported missing in action on the Western Front near the village of Cuinchy in northern France on 26 January 1915, presumed killed the previous day.<ref name="OBIT"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/cricketers-who-died-in-world-war-1-part-4-of-5-167609 |title=Cricketers who died in World War 1 — Part 4 of 5 |work=Cricket Country |access-date=28 November 2018}}</ref>
==See also== *List of people who disappeared
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/16450.html Arthur Lang] at ESPNcricinfo *[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30869/30869.html Arthur Lang] at CricketArchive
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