{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''William Goodhew''' (24 May 1828 – 1 May 1897), known as Billy Goodhew, was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent and several other teams in the period between 1854 and 1866.<ref name="ca">{{cite web | url = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/29/29693/29693.html| title = Billy Goodhew |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 11 July 2016}}</ref> He was born at Chislehurst in Kent in 1828.<ref name=ci>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/13664.html William Goodhew], ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 12 July 2017.</ref><ref name=carlaw>Carlaw, pp. 195–196. (Retrieved 7 August 2022.)</ref>
Goodhew was a right-handed batsman and an infrequent right-arm bowler who bowled in the round arm style. At his death, ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' wrote of him: "Without ever being in the front rank of professional cricketers, Goodhew was a very fair bat and rendered useful service to Kent at a time when the fortunes of the county were at rather a low ebb."<ref>{{Cite book | title = Wisden Cricketers' Almanack | edition = 1898 | publisher = Wisden | chapter = Deaths in 1897 | page = xliii }}</ref> His best innings was a score of 70 out of a total of just 132 when opening the Kent batting against Sussex in 1862.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/1/1263.html | title = Scorecard: Kent v Sussex | date = 31 July 1862 |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 17 July 2016}}</ref> As a bowler, his best return came when playing for Gentlemen of Kent – although he was a professional – against Gentlemen of England in 1858, when he took seven first-innings wickets for 40 runs.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/1/1129.html | title = Scorecard: Gentlemen of Kent v Gentlemen of England | date = 19 August 1858 |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 17 July 2016}}</ref> In addition to 69 first-class matches for Kent, he played for county combinations involving Kent with Sussex, Surrey and Nottinghamshire and for the South in the North v South matches.<ref name="ca"/>
After his playing career was over, Goodhew was used by Kent as an umpire in first-class matches from 1876 to 1882.<ref name="ca"/> He died in 1897 at Canterbury aged 68.<ref name=ci />
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==Bibliography== * {{cite book |last=Carlaw |first=Derek |title=Kent County Cricketers, A to Z: Part One (1806–1914) |publisher=ACS |location=Cardiff |year=2020 |url=https://archive.acscricket.com/books/Kent_Cricketers_A_to_Z_Part_One_Revised_Expanded.pdf}}
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