{{Short description|English cricketer}} {{EngvarB|date=August 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Edward Cawston | country = England | birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|1|16|df=yes}} | birth_place = Wantage, Berkshire, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1998|9|5|1911|1|16|df=yes}} | death_place = Maidstone, Kent, England | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm medium-fast | role = Bowler | club2 = Cambridge University | year2 = {{nowrap|1932–1933}} | club1 = Sussex | year1 = {{nowrap|1928–1931}} | type1 = FC | debutdate1 = 1 August | debutyear1 = 1928 | debutfor1 = Sussex | debutagainst1 = Derbyshire | lastdate1 = 5 July | lastyear1 = 1933 | lastfor1 = Cambridge University | lastagainst1 = HDG Leveson-Gower's XI | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 25 | runs1 = 668 | bat avg1 = 16.70 | 100s/50s1 = 0/4 | top score1 = 93 | deliveries1 = 2,957 | wickets1 = 39 | bowl avg1 = 33.46 | fivefor1 = 2 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 7/53 | catches/stumpings1 = 16/– | date = 7 June | year = 2008 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/11067.html CricInfo }}
'''Edward Cawston''' (16 January 1911 – 5 September 1998) was an English cricketer.<ref>[http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/11067.html Cricinfo profile]</ref> A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler, he played first-class cricket for Sussex County Cricket Club and Cambridge University between 1928 and 1933<ref name="CAP">[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/28/28476/28476.html CricketArchive profile]</ref> and also represented the Egypt national cricket team in 1936.<ref name="Teams">[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/28/28476/all_teams.html Teams played for by Edward Cawston] at CricketArchive</ref>
==Personal life== Born in Wantage in 1911,<ref name="CAP" /> Cawston was educated at Lancing College and Cambridge University. After his cricket career, he became headmaster of Orwell Park School.<ref name="WisObit">Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1999, [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228770.html Obituaries]</ref> He died in Maidstone in 1998.<ref name="CAP" />
==Cricket career== Cawston made his first-class debut for Sussex in a County Championship match against Derbyshire in the 1928 English cricket season<ref name="FCM">[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/28/28476/First-Class_Matches.html First-class matches played by Edward Cawston] at CricketArchive</ref> whilst he was still at school.<ref name="WisObit" /> He played three more County Championship matches over the next two seasons before playing first-class matches for Sussex against Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931, his last two matches for Sussex.<ref name="FCM" />
In the 1932 season, his first first-class match for Cambridge University was, perhaps ironically, against Sussex. He played six more first-class matches for the university that season, gaining his blue when he played against Oxford University at Lord's in July. He played twelve first-class matches for the university the following season, including a match against the West Indies, but didn't gain another blue.<ref name="FCM" />
His first-class career ended that season with a match for the university against HDG Leveson-Gower's XI,<ref name="FCM" /> but he continued to play cricket at lower levels.<ref name="Teams" /> In April 1934 he went on a tour of Egypt with HM Martineau's XI,<ref name="OthM">[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/28/28476/Other_matches.html Other matches played by Edward Cawston] at CricketArchive</ref> scoring a century in the first innings of the second match before becoming one of six victims for Eric Cole.<ref>[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/136/136049.html Scorecard] of Egypt v HM Martineau's XI, 25 April 1934 at CricketArchive</ref>
In 1936 he played twice for Egypt against Martineau's team,<ref name="OthM" /> taking 6/67 in the second innings of the second match.<ref>[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/136/136117.html Scorecard] of Egypt v HM Martineau's XI, 23 April 1936 at CricketArchive</ref> He began playing Minor counties cricket for Berkshire in 1937 and played for them until 1946.<ref name="Teams" /> He played for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Ireland in Dublin in July 1938 and for the RAF against Nottinghamshire in August 1940.<ref name="OthM" /> He switched counties in 1947, moving to Suffolk, where he finished out his career in 1950.<ref name="Teams" />
===Statistics=== In his 25 first-class matches Cawston scored 668 runs at an average of 16.70 and took 39 wickets at an average of 33.46. His top score of 93 and his best innings bowling performance of 7/53<ref name="CAP" /> were both made in the same match – for Cambridge University against HDG Leveson-Gower's XI in 1932.<ref name="WisObit" />
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==External links== {{cricinfo|id=11067}}
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