{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Leland Hone | image = Leland Hone c1878.jpg | caption = Hone in about 1878 | birth_date = {{birth date|1853|01|30|df=y}} | birth_place = Dublin, Ireland | death_date = {{death date and age|1896|12|31|1853|01|30|df=y}} | death_place = Dublin, Ireland | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | columns = 2 | column1 = Test | matches1 = 1 | runs1 = 13 | bat avg1 = 6.50 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 7 | hidedeliveries = true | catches/stumpings1= 2/0 | column2 = First-class | matches2 = 8 | runs2 = 85 | bat avg2 = 7.08 | 100s/50s2 = 0/0 | top score2 = 27 | catches/stumpings2= 9/2 | international = true | country = England | onetest = true | testdebutagainst = Australia | testdebutdate = 2 January | testdebutyear = 1879 | testcap = 14 | source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/31/31.html CricketArchive | date = 16 May | year = 2019 }}
'''Leland Hone''' (30 January 1853 – 31 December 1896<ref name="CAP">[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/0/31/31.html Cricket Archive profile]. Cricketarchive.co.uk. Retrieved on 2 May 2018.</ref>) was an Irish cricketer who played internationally for England and Ireland, in addition to playing first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club.<ref>[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/0/31/all_teams.html Teams played for by Leland Hone]. Cricket Archive.</ref>
==Playing career== A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper,<ref name="CAP" /> Hone made his debut for Ireland in August 1875 playing against I Zingari. He played three more matches against I Zingari in August of each of the following three years, scoring 74 not out in 1877, his highest score for Ireland.<ref name="CESZP">[https://web.archive.org/web/20110524015026/http://www.cricketeurope4.net/CSTATZ/irelandall/ire886.htm Leland Hone]. StatsZone Ireland.</ref> In 1878, he made his first-class debut, playing for the MCC against Cambridge University. After one more game against Oxford University<ref name="FCM">[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/0/31/First-Class_Matches.html First-class matches played by Leland Hone]. Cricket Archive.</ref> he was chosen to tour Australia under the captaincy of Lord Harris.<ref name="CIP">[http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/14257.html Leland Hone]. Cricinfo.</ref>
When it became clear that the side lacked a regular wicket-keeper, Hone was drafted in for the only Test of the tour, playing against Australia in January 1879, becoming the first player to represent England without playing county cricket<ref name="CIP" /><ref name="FC">{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/149981.html |title=Curtly's seventh heaven |accessdate=31 January 2017 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}</ref> and the first Irishman to represent England.<ref>Lynch, Steven (11 September 2006) [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/259130.html Made in Ireland – and England's overseas World Cup six]. Ask Steven column at Cricinfo.</ref>
He played four more first-class matches on the tour, two each against New South Wales and Victoria,<ref name="FCM" /> and returned to the Ireland team for matches against the MCC and Surrey that summer.<ref name="CESZP" /> He played one final first-class match for the MCC in 1880 against Oxford University at Lord's.<ref name="FCM" /> He continued playing club cricket, and represented Ireland twice in 1883 before a final game against I Zingari in August 1888.<ref name="CESZP" />
==Statistics==
In his matches for Ireland, he scored 321 runs at an average of 24.69. He took sixteen catches and six stumpings.<ref name="CESZP" /> In his only Test match, he scored 13 runs and took two catches. In first-class cricket, he scored 85 runs at an average of 7.08, taking nine catches and two stumpings.<ref name="CAP" />
==Family== Hone came from a cricketing family. His brothers William and Nathaniel also played for Ireland, as did his cousins William, Thomas and Jeffery. His nephew Pat Hone also played for Ireland.<ref name="CAP" />
==References== {{reflist}}
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