# Walter Read > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Walter_Read > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Walter_Read.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Read > Source revision: 1350098735 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) English cricketer For other people named Walter Read, see [Walter Read (disambiguation)](/source/Walter_Read_(disambiguation)). Walter Read Personal information Full name Walter William Read Born (1855-11-23)23 November 1855 Reigate, Surrey, England Died 6 January 1907(1907-01-06) (aged 51) Addiscombe Park, Surrey, England Batting Right-handed Bowling Right arm slow (underarm) International information National side England Test debut (cap 40) 30 December 1882 v Australia Last Test 26 August 1893 v Australia Domestic team information Years Team 1873–1897 Surrey 1890 MCC Career statistics Competition Test First-class Matches 18 467 Runs scored 720 22,349 Batting average 27.69 32.06 100s/50s 1/5 38/113 Top score 117 338 Balls bowled 60 5,597 Wickets 0 108 Bowling average – 32.25 5 wickets in innings – 1 10 wickets in match – 0 Best bowling – 6/24 Catches/stumpings 16/– 381/20 Source: CricketArchive, 23 September 2008 **Walter William Read** (23 November 1855 - 6 January 1907) was an [English](/source/England_national_cricket_team) [cricketer](/source/Cricketer). A fluent right hand bat, he was also an occasional bowler of [lobs](/source/Lob_bowling) who sometimes switched to quick overarm deliveries. He captained England in two [Test matches](/source/Test_cricket), winning them both. Read was named a [Wisden Cricketer of the Year](/source/Wisden_Cricketer_of_the_Year) in 1893.[1] ## Cricket career Read took part in the original Ashes series of 1882–3 and is commemorated by the poem inscribed on the side of the urn: - *When [Ivo](/source/Ivo_Bligh) goes back with the urn, the urn;* - *[Studds](/source/Studd_brothers), [Steel](/source/Allan_Steel), Read and [Tylecote](/source/Edward_Tylecote) return, return;* - *The welkin will ring loud,* - *The great crowd will feel proud,* - *Seeing [Barlow](/source/Dick_Barlow) and [Bates](/source/Billy_Bates) with the urn, the urn;* - *And the rest coming home with the urn.* He played for [Surrey](/source/Surrey_County_Cricket_Club) from 1873 to 1897, scoring 338 for them against [Oxford University](/source/Oxford_University_Cricket_Club) in 1888. At the time, it was the second highest [first-class](/source/First-class_cricket) score ever made. He was a member of the side that won the [County Championship](/source/County_Championship) in 1890-2, 1894 and 1895. After [W. G. Grace](/source/W._G._Grace) he was the most prolific amateur of his day. He became the first number 10 to score a hundred in Test cricket when he made 117 against Australia at The Oval in 1884. His match-saving innings remains the highest score by a No. 10 in Tests. He reached his century in 113 minutes with 36 scoring strokes. His partnership of 151 with [William Scotton](/source/William_Scotton) remains England's highest for the ninth wicket against Australia. According to Sir [Home Gordon](/source/Home_Gordon), Read was furious at being held down so low in the order. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Walter Read"](http://static.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/19352.html). *[CricInfo](/source/CricInfo)*. ## Further reading - Keith Booth, *Walter Read: A Class Act*, ACS Publications, 2011, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-908165-11-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-908165-11-4). ## External links - [*Annals of Cricket* by W. W. Read (1896)](https://archive.org/details/annalscricketar00readgoog) at [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive) Walter Read Sporting positions Preceded by Arthur Shrewsbury English national cricket captain 1887/8 Succeeded by W. G. Grace Preceded by W. G. Grace English national cricket captain 1892 Succeeded by W. G. Grace v t e England Test cricket captains 1876–77: Lillywhite 1878–80, 1884: Harris 1881–82: Shaw 1882; 1884: Hornby 1882–83: Bligh 1884–85; 1886–87: Shrewsbury 1886; 1888: Steel 1887–88; 1891/92: Read 1888–1896; 1899: Grace 1888–89: C. A. Smith 1888–89: Bowden 1893; 1894/95–1897/98: Stoddart 1895–96: O'Brien 1895–96; 1898–99: Hawke 1897–98; 1899–1909: MacLaren 1903–04; 1905–06: Warner 1905: Jackson 1907: Foster 1907–08; 1909–10: Fane 1907–08: Jones 1909–10: Leveson Gower 1911–12; 1921; 1924: Douglas 1912: Fry 1921: Tennyson 1922–23: F. T. Mann 1924–25: A. E. R. Gilligan 1926; 1929: A. W. Carr 1926; 1928; 1930–31: Chapman 1927–28: Stanyforth 1927–28: Stevens 1928–29; 1929: White 1929–30: A. H. H. Gilligan 1929–30: Calthorpe 1930; 1932–33; 1934–35: Wyatt 1931; 1933–34: Jardine 1934: Walters 1936–1947/48: Allen 1937: Robins 1938; 1946–47: Hammond 1946–47; 1947–1950: Yardley 1947–48: Cranston 1948–49: F. G. Mann 1949; 1950; 1950–51: Brown 1951–52: Howard 1951–52: D. B. 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Cowdrey 1988; 1988–1993: Gooch 1989–90; 1990–91: Lamb 1992–93; 1992–93; 1998–99; 2000; 2001: Stewart 1993; 1993–94; 1997–98; 2001: Atherton 1999–2003: Hussain 1999: Butcher 2003–2008: Vaughan 2004; 2005–06: Trescothick 2006–07: Flintoff 2006; 2007; 2008–09; 2012: Strauss 2008–09: Pietersen 2010; 2012; 2016–17: Cook 2017–2022; 2026: Root 2020, 2022−present: Stokes 2024: Pope Italics denote deputised captaincy Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF WorldCat National United States Netherlands Other SNAC --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Walter Read](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Read) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Read?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.