# Edwin Bennett (cricketer)

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English cricketer

Edwin Bennett Personal information Full name Edwin Howard Bennett Born (1893-12-21)21 December 1893 Shifnal, Shropshire, England Died 9 July 1929(1929-07-09) (aged 35) East Worthing, Sussex, England Domestic team information Years Team 1921–1924 Staffordshire 1925 Worcestershire Career statistics Competition First-class Matches 4 Runs scored 157 Batting average 19.62 100s/50s 0/2 Top score 73 Catches/stumpings 1/– Source: CricketArchive, 4 March 2009

**Edwin Howard Bennett** (21 December 1893 – 9 July 1929) was an English [cricketer](/source/Cricket), who played four [first-class](/source/First-class_cricket) matches. He was born in [Shifnal](/source/Shifnal), [Shropshire](/source/Shropshire), and he died at the age of 35 in [East Worthing](/source/East_Worthing), [Sussex](/source/Sussex).

Three of Bennett's games were for [Worcestershire](/source/Worcestershire_County_Cricket_Club) in 1925, while the other came for the [Civil Service](/source/Civil_Service_cricket_team) (playing their only first-class match) in 1927. In the latter game against the touring [New Zealanders](/source/New_Zealand_national_cricket_team), themselves making their first tour of England, he made 73 and 60 (by some distance the highest scores of his career).[1] He brought off only one catch in first-class cricket, to dismiss [Bob Wyatt](/source/Bob_Wyatt) in the [derby](/source/List_of_sports_rivalries) against [Warwickshire](/source/Warwickshire_County_Cricket_Club).[2]

Before his brief first-class career, Bennett played a number of games in the [Minor Counties Championship](/source/Minor_Counties_Cricket_Championship) for [Staffordshire](/source/Staffordshire_County_Cricket_Club); he scored 97 for them against [Kent](/source/Kent_County_Cricket_Club) Second XI in 1921.[3] He also played [club cricket](/source/Club_cricket) for [Wolverhampton](/source/Wolverhampton), and in a single-innings game against [Shrewsbury School](/source/Shrewsbury_School) in 1922 hit 146 opening the batting; the match was eventually drawn with Shrewsbury nine wickets down.[4]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Civil Service v New Zealanders in 1927"](http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/12/12399.html). CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 March 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Warwickshire v Worcestershire in 1925"](http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/11/11449.html). CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 March 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Kent Second XI v Staffordshire in 1921"](http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/88/88127.html). CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 March 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Shrewsbury School v Wolverhampton in 1922"](https://web.archive.org/web/20121019143932/http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/161/161404.html). CricketArchive. Archived from [the original](http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/161/161404.html) on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2009.

## References

- [Edwin Bennett](https://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/9684.html) at [Cricinfo](/source/Cricinfo)

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