{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Use British English|date=November 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | image = E_L_Kidd.jpg | country = Ireland | fullname = Eric Leslie Kidd | birth_date = 18 October 1889 | birth_place = Westminster, Middlesex, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1984|7|2|1889|10|18}} | death_place = Dún Laoghaire, Ireland | nickname = | family = Percy Kidd (father) | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Leg break | role = | club1 = Cambridge University | year1 = 1910–1913 | club2 = Middlesex | year2 = 1910–1928 | club3 = Marylebone Cricket Club | year3 = 1914–1928 | club4 = Ireland | year4 = 1921–1928 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 147 | runs1 = 5,113 | bat avg1 = 24.94 | 100s/50s1 = 6/22 | top score1 = 167 | deliveries1 = 6,830 | wickets1 = 186 | bowl avg1 = 24.62 | fivefor1 = 8 | tenfor1 = 1 | best bowling1 = 8/49 | catches/stumpings1 = 131/– | date = 4 February | year = 2019 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ireland/content/player/24418.html Cricinfo }}
'''Eric Leslie Kidd''' (18 October 1889 – 2 July 1984)<ref name="CAP">[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/26/26799/26799.html Cricket Archive profile]</ref> was an English-born Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and leg spin bowler, he played 147 first-class cricket matches, mostly for Middlesex,<ref name="CAP" /> and played for the Ireland cricket team on six occasions.<ref name="CESZP">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cricketeurope4.net/CSTATZ/irelandall/ire156.htm |title=CricketEurope Stats Zone profile |access-date=28 May 2007 |archive-date=21 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121112303/http://www.cricketeurope4.net/CSTATZ/irelandall/ire156.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Biography== Born on 18 October 1889 in Westminster, London, the grandson of Joseph Kidd (1824-1918) and son of Percy Marmaduke Kidd (1851-1942), both eminent doctors, E. L. Kidd was educated at Wellington College, and went on to study at Cambridge University<ref name="CIP">[http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/24418.html Cricinfo profile]</ref> where he made his first-class debut, playing for the university team against Essex in May 1910 and gained his blue when he played against Oxford University later in the year.<ref name="FCM">[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/26/26799/First-Class_Matches.html First-class matches played by Leslie Kidd] at CricketArchive</ref> He remained in the University side for four years<ref name="CIP" /> and also began to play county cricket for Middlesex, making his debut for them in August 1910 against Yorkshire.<ref name="FCM" />
He also played for the MCC and in a few Gentlemen v Players matches,<ref name="FCM" /> and at the outbreak of World War I was considered as someone who could possibly play Test cricket for England.<ref name="CIP" /> He graduated from Cambridge with a first in Engineering.<ref>''The Cricketer'', Vol 65, No 9, September 1984, p. 46.</ref>
After the war, he had moved to Dublin where he worked for Guinness,<ref name="CIP" /> and his appearances for Middlesex became rather sporadic by the standards of the time,<ref name="FCM" /> only playing when on vacation from work in Dublin.<ref name="CIP" /> He made his debut for Ireland in August 1921, playing against Scotland<ref name="CESZP" /> in a first-class match.<ref name="FCM" />
He continued with his occasional appearances for Middlesex, occasionally appearing for other first-class teams such as the Free Foresters,<ref name="FCM" /> and played for Ireland five more times, once against Scotland and four times against the MCC. His last game for Ireland was in August 1930 against the MCC in Dublin,<ref name="CESZP" /> His last game for Middlesex was a County Championship match against Essex in June 1928, while his final first-class match was for the Free Foresters against Cambridge University.<ref name="FCM" /> He died on 2 July 1984 in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland.
==Statistics== In matches for Ireland, Kidd scored 376 runs at an average of 34.18, with a top score of 73 against Scotland in July 1925. He took 23 wickets at an average of 20.00, with best bowling figures of 5/63 against the MCC in August 1924, the only time he took five wickets in an innings for Ireland.<ref name="CESZP" /> In first-class cricket, he scored 5113 runs at an average of 24.94, with a top score of 167<ref name="CAP" /> for Cambridge University against Sussex in 1912.<ref name="WisObit">Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1985 [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228591.html Obituaries]</ref> He took 186 wickets at an average of 24.62, with best innings bowling of 8/49<ref name="CAP" /> also for Cambridge University against Sussex, this time in 1911.<ref name="WisObit" /> His highest first-class score for Middlesex was 150 not out<ref>[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/26/26799/f_Batting_by_Team.html First-class batting by team by Leslie Kidd] at Cricket Archive</ref> and his best bowling for them was 4/39.<ref>[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/26/26799/f_Bowling_by_Team.html First-class bowling by team by Leslie Kidd] at Cricket Archive</ref>
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