Full Name

Neil Stafford Hotchkin

Born

February 04, 1914, Woodhall Spa Manor, Lincolnshire

Died

February 06, 2004, Woodhall Spa Manor, Lincolnshire, (aged 90y 2d)

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Offbreak

Hotchkin, Neil Stafford, died on February 6, 2004, two days after his 90th birthday. He was the last survivor of the first team fielded by the Arabs, the wandering club side founded by EW Swanton in 1935. At a dinner to mark his own 90th birthday, in 1997, Swanton spoke of Hotchkin in an affectionate address: "The most extraordinary thing about him is that as a cricketer he got worse and worse. In the Eton and Harrow match he made 153 in the first year [1931], 109 and 96 in the second year, and 88 and 12 in the third. So he obviously left school thinking he'd get a pair in the next year if he played on... 458 he made, and that's the most that have ever been made in the Eton and Harrow match." Hotchkin did play a little more first-class cricket than that suggests - he opened the batting for Cambridge in the 1935 Varsity match. But apart from three wartime games in India, and a handful of matches for Middlesex, the last of them in 1948, he concentrated on club cricket - and golf, in which he rose to become president of the European Golf Union. He owned the Woodhall Spa golf club in Lincolnshire, where the main course is now named after him.
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Neil Hotchkin Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAve100s50sCtSt
FC233727367421.020240

Bowling

FormatMatBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
FC23440---6.00-000

Debut/Last Matches of Neil Hotchkin

FC Matches

Span
1934 - 1948

Recent Matches of Neil Hotchkin

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Cambridge U vs Oxford Uni29 & 30--08-Jul-1935Lord'sFC
Cambridge U vs Sussex17 & 22--29-Jun-1935HoveFC
Cambridge U vs M.C.C.28 & 31--22-Jun-1935Lord'sFC
Cambridge U vs Essex3 & 4--15-Jun-1935Westcliff-on-SeaFC
Cambridge U vs F Foresters33 & 180/408-Jun-1935CambridgeFC