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English
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England
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Eng
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Alexander Webbe
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Right-handed batsman (RHB)
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Right arm fast (RF)
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1
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4
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200
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0/0
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4
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balls
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0
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0
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n/a
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0
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0
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n/a
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2/0
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370
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14,465
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2481
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14/60
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243
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7,699
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109
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2521
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2
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0
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5/23
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229/10
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2 January
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1879
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4 January
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1879
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(born
16 January 1855 in
Bethnal Green ,
London ,
England ; died
19 February 1941 at Fulvens Farm, Hoe,
Abinger Hammer ,
Surrey ,
England ) was a
Cricket er who played for
Oxford University and
Middlesex . He also played one
Test Match for
England .
After being schooled at Harrow, he went on to
Trinity College ,
Oxford , where he got a Blue in his first year. He was twice captain of the University side. Whilst still at Oxford, Webbe played for the Gentlemen at
Lord 's and made 65 out of 203 in the opening stand, which he shared with
WG Grace .
Webbe first played for Middlesex in his first year at University, aged only 20. In
1878 /
9 he was one of the amateurs to tour
Australia with
Lord Harris , and it was on this tour that he played in his one and only Test, scoring only 4 and 0.
Webbe was appointed captain of Middlesex in
1885 , a post he held to
1896 . His best season as a batsman was his third as captain, when in
1887 he scored 1,244 runs at an average of 47 and made 243 not out against
Yorkshire .
After he retired as a cricketer, he was secretary of Middlesex from
1900 to
1922 and President of Middlesex from
1923 to
1936 . From
1886 until
1909 he was a member of the committee of the
Marylebone Cricket Club .
