William Attewell

England
INTL CAREER: 1884 - 1892
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Full Name

William Attewell

Born

June 12, 1861, Keyworth, Nottinghamshire

Died

June 11, 1927, Long Eaton, Derbyshire, (aged 65y 364d)

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Medium

A cricketer of considerable accomplishments, William Attewell (known as Dick to his team-mates) was best known as a bowler of unremitting accuracy and length. He bowled at medium pace, varying pace, flight and spin cleverly, and rarely bowled a loose ball. He used his abilities to perfect "off theory", popular in the 1890s, where he frustrated the batsman by bowling wide of the off stump to a packed off-side field. He was a fine fielder in the covers, and a more than useful batsman with a first-class century to his name (and a double hundred for MCC v Northumberland). A Nottinghamshire man, he came into the county side in 1881, and rarely left it until his retirement nineteen years later. He took 100 wickets in a season ten times, and toured Australia three times, most successfully in 1887-8.

After retirement he became a first-class umpire, and later the professional at Shrewsbury School, where a young Neville Cardus was his assistant. His brother Thomas also played briefly for Nottinghamshire (DL, 2000).

William Attewell Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAve100s50s6sCtSt
Tests1015615043*16.6600090
FC42964468808310214.03127-3640

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests10182850626284/426/10722.351.31101.7200
FC429-1082642989619519/23-15.321.6555.4-13427

Umpire & Referee

FormatMatUmpire
FC55
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Recent Matches of William Attewell

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
M.C.C. vs Australians01/34 & 2/5423-Jul-1896Lord'sFC
North vs Australians0 & 01/18 & 0/2702-Jul-1896ManchesterFC
Notts vs Australians24 & 82/64 & 1/2125-Jun-1896NottinghamFC
Mid Counties vs Australians201/42 & 4/7318-Jun-1896BirminghamFC
M.C.C. vs Australians70/14 & 0/1411-Jun-1896Lord'sFC

Debut/Last Matches of William Attewell