# Tom Killick
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{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2016}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Tom Killick
| image =
| caption =
| fullname = Edgar Thomas Killick
| birth_date = {{birth date|1907|5|9|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [Fulham](/source/Fulham), London, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1953|5|18|1907|5|9|df=yes}}
| death_place = [Northampton](/source/Northampton), England
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| club1 = [Middlesex](/source/Middlesex_County_Cricket_Club)
| year1 = 1926–1939
| club2 = [Cambridge University](/source/Cambridge_University_Cricket_Club)
| year2 = 1927–1930
| columns = 2
| column1 = [Test](/source/Test_cricket)
| matches1 = 2
| runs1 = 81
| bat avg1 = 20.25
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 31
| deliveries1 = –
| wickets1 = –
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1= 2/–
| column2 = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket)
| matches2 = 92
| runs2 = 5,730
| bat avg2 = 40.35
| 100s/50s2 = 15/26
| top score2 = 206
| deliveries2 = 293
| wickets2 = 3
| bowl avg2 = 76.33
| fivefor2 = 0
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 1/20
| catches/stumpings2= 50/–
| international = true
| country = England
| testdebutagainst = South Africa
| testdebutdate = 15 June
| testdebutyear = 1929
| lasttestdate = 29 June
| lasttestagainst = South Africa
| lasttestyear = 1929
| source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/15882.html CricInfo
| date = 7 November
| year = 2022
}}
'''Edgar Thomas Killick''' (9 May 1907 – 18 May 1953) was an English [cricketer](/source/cricketer) who played in two [Tests](/source/Test_cricket) in 1929. He became an ordained priest in his later life.
Tom Killick was a right-handed batsman who generally either opened the innings or went in at the fall of the first wicket. Educated at [St Paul's School](/source/St_Paul's_School_(London)), he played a few matches for [Middlesex](/source/Middlesex_County_Cricket_Club) as a 19-year-old in 1926. He then went up to [Jesus College, Cambridge](/source/Jesus_College%2C_Cambridge), but was unimpressive in the freshmen's trial match in 1927.[{{cite newspaper The Times |issue=44571 |date=3 May 1927 |title=Freshmen's Match At Cambridge |page=7}}] However, he was picked for Middlesex against the university team and scored 94 and an unbeaten 42: he was then chosen for the next few university matches but, apart from an 80 that drew comment from [Wisden Cricketers' Almanack](/source/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack) for slow scoring, did little and failed to win a [Blue](/source/Blue_(university_sport)). He played regularly for Middlesex in the second half of the season.
In the following season 1928, he again failed in two early games for Cambridge. He then turned to Middlesex scoring 82 in his second match for the county. Given a further trial at Cambridge, he scored 100 against [Surrey](/source/Surrey_County_Cricket_Club) and 161 against [Sussex](/source/Sussex_County_Cricket_Club), finishing top of the university averages and winning a Blue. In the 1928 season as a whole, he scored 1231 runs, at an average of 38.
In 1929, Killick had his most successful season and his only taste of Test cricket. [England](/source/English_cricket_team)'s selectors experimented with young players in the first two matches of the 1929 series against [South Africa](/source/South_African_cricket_team), and Killick was picked to partner [Herbert Sutcliffe](/source/Herbert_Sutcliffe) as an opener. In the first match, at [Edgbaston](/source/Edgbaston_Cricket_Ground), he scored 31 and 23 in a game that ended as a rather more even draw than England had expected. At Lord's, he scored just 3 and 24 as the match was again drawn and he was dropped as England ended the experiment with youth and brought back [Frank Woolley](/source/Frank_Woolley) and [Ted Bowley](/source/Ted_Bowley), a move that helped bring success in two of the remaining three Tests.
Killick scored 1384 runs at an average of 44 runs per innings in 1929, but played only one [first-class match](/source/first-class_cricket) – [Gentlemen v Players](/source/Gentlemen_v_Players) at Lord's – after the end of the Cambridge season. The next year, 1930, he again played through the Cambridge season, making 903 runs at an average of 47, but then did not appear again.
Across the 1930s, as he first studied for the Anglican priesthood and then worked for the Church, he played infrequent first-class cricket, not appearing at all between 1934 and 1938. He reappeared in one match for [Free Foresters](/source/Free_Foresters_Cricket_Club) in 1946, but that was his last first-class game.
As an ordained Anglican priest, he was a chaplain at [Harrow School](/source/Harrow_School) and later a [vicar](/source/Vicar_(Anglicanism)) near [Letchworth](/source/Letchworth). He served in West Africa as an army chaplain in the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War) and then became vicar of [Bishop's Stortford](/source/Bishop's_Stortford). He died from a [heart attack](/source/myocardial_infarction) while playing in an inter-diocesan cricket match between clergy from the [St Albans](/source/Diocese_of_St_Albans) and [Coventry](/source/Diocese_of_Coventry) dioceses, aged 46.["Obituary: Rev. E. T. Killick", ''[The Cricketer](/source/The_Cricketer)'', 30 May 1953, p. 204.]
== See also ==
* [List of fatalities while playing cricket](/source/List_of_fatalities_while_playing_cricket)
==References==
{{Refbegin}}
* Wisden, 1928, 1929 and 1930 editions
* Obituary in Wisden 1954
{{Refend}}
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
* {{cricinfo|id=15882}}
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Category:England Test cricketers
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Category:Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Category:People educated at St Paul's School, London
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