{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Edwin Bennett | image = | fullname = Edwin Howard Bennett | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1893|12|21|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Shifnal]], [[Shropshire]], England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1929|7|9|1893|12|21|df=yes}} | death_place = [[East Worthing]], [[Sussex]], England | role =
| club2 = [[Worcestershire County Cricket Club|Worcestershire]] | year2 = 1925 | club1 = [[Staffordshire County Cricket Club|Staffordshire]] | year1 = {{nowrap|1921–1924}}
| columns = 1 | column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]] | matches1 = 4 | runs1 = 157 | bat avg1 = 19.62 | 100s/50s1 = 0/2 | top score1 = 73 | hidedeliveries = true | catches/stumpings1 = 1/– | date = 4 March | year = 2009 | source = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/27/27829/27829.html CricketArchive }}
'''Edwin Howard Bennett''' (21 December 1893 – 9 July 1929) was an English [[cricket]]er, who played four [[first-class cricket|first-class]] matches. He was born in [[Shifnal]], [[Shropshire]], and he died at the age of 35 in [[East Worthing]], [[Sussex]].<!-- How did he die? -->
Three of Bennett's games were for [[Worcestershire County Cricket Club|Worcestershire]] in 1925, while the other came for the [[Civil Service cricket team|Civil Service]] (playing their only first-class match) in 1927. In the latter game against the touring [[New Zealand national cricket team|New Zealanders]], themselves making their first tour of England, he made 73 and 60 (by some distance the highest scores of his career).<ref> {{cite web |url=http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/12/12399.html |title=Civil Service v New Zealanders in 1927 |accessdate=5 March 2009 |publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref> He brought off only one catch in first-class cricket, to dismiss [[Bob Wyatt]] in the [[List of sports rivalries|derby]] against [[Warwickshire County Cricket Club|Warwickshire]].<ref> {{cite web |url=http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/11/11449.html |title=Warwickshire v Worcestershire in 1925 |accessdate=5 March 2009 |publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref>
Before his brief first-class career, Bennett played a number of games in the [[Minor Counties Cricket Championship|Minor Counties Championship]] for [[Staffordshire County Cricket Club|Staffordshire]]; he scored 97 for them against [[Kent County Cricket Club|Kent]] Second XI in 1921.<ref> {{cite web |url=http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/88/88127.html |title=Kent Second XI v Staffordshire in 1921 |accessdate=5 March 2009 |publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref> He also played [[club cricket]] for [[Wolverhampton]], and in a single-innings game against [[Shrewsbury School]] in 1922 hit 146 opening the batting; the match was eventually drawn with Shrewsbury nine wickets down.<ref> {{cite web |url=http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/161/161404.html |title=Shrewsbury School v Wolverhampton in 1922 |accessdate=5 March 2009 |publisher=CricketArchive |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019143932/http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/161/161404.html |archivedate=19 October 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref>
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