George Gilbert (cricketer)
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| Full name | George Henry Bailey Gilbert | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 September 1829 Cheltenham, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 16 June 1906 (aged 76) Summer Hill, Sydney, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1855/56–1875/76 | New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 6 March 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
George Henry Bailey Gilbert (2 September 1829 – 16 June 1906) was an English cricketer.
Life and career
[edit]Gilbert was born in Cheltenham. He was the elder brother of Walter Gilbert and a cousin of E. M., W. G. and Fred Grace. He made six first-class cricket appearances in 1851 including two for Middlesex and one for the Gentlemen against the Players.
He emigrated to Australia in 1852. He played in 12 first-class matches for New South Wales, all of them against Victoria, over a 19-year period from March 1856 to March 1875.[1][2] He captained New South Wales to victory over Victoria in their inaugural first-class match, and for several seasons afterwards.[3]
In 1857 the Australian Cricketer's Guide said of him:
His batting is very effective, but wanting in finish, and he would do more if not so fond of hitting to leg. Is a good change round-arm bowler. His fielding is good, and would be rendered much more elegant if he curbed his sometimes too exuberant spirits.[4]
Gilbert made the top score of the match when New South Wales beat Victoria in Sydney in 1856-57, 31 in the second innings.[5] The next season he took the first hat-trick in Australian first-class cricket, though it did not prevent Victoria from winning.[6]
Gilbert later spent some time in New Zealand, where he struggled financially.[7] A tobacconist by preference, he also worked as surveyor, clerk, station master and timber worker to feed his nine children.[1] He was also at one stage the groundsman for the cricket ground in the Sydney suburb of Burwood, and later fossicked for gold at Fish River, near Bathurst.[8]
Gilbert died in June 1906 at his daughter's house in the Sydney suburb of Summer Hill after being ill for four months.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "George Gilbert". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
- ^ "George Gilbert". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
- ^ "Victoria v New South Wales, 1855-56". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
- ^ "New South Wales Eleven". Sydney Morning Herald: 5. 7 October 1857.
- ^ "New South Wales v Victoria, 1856/57". Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
- ^ A. G. Moyes, Australian Cricket: A History, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1959, p. 112.
- ^ Censor (12 December 1885). "Cricket Gossip". The Sydney Mail and NSW Advertiser: 1247.
- ^ a b "Cricket". Referee: 9. 20 June 1906.