Edward Baker (Worcestershire cricketer)

Edward Baker
Personal information
Full name Edward Stanley Baker
Born (1910-11-09)9 November 1910
Moseley, Birmingham, England
Died 15 March 1992(1992-03-15) (aged 81)
Great Dunmow, Essex, England
Batting style Right-handed
Role Wicket-keeper
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
19331934 Worcestershire
Career statistics
Competition FC
Matches 32
Runs scored 160
Batting average 6.40
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 21*
Balls bowled 0
Wickets 0
Bowling average -
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling -
Catches/stumpings 36/5
Source: , 4 August 2008

Edward Stanley Baker (9 November 1910 15 March 1992) was an English cricketer: a wicket-keeper who played 32 first-class matches for Worcestershire in the 1930s.

Baker attended, and played for, King Edward's School in Birmingham.[1] He made his first-class debut for Worcestershire against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham in 1933, taking two catches and scoring 0 and 5.[2] He appeared thrice more that summer, but took only one more catch and scored just 1 and 1 in his two remaining innings.

In 1934 Baker was Worcestershire's regular wicket-keeper, a deliberate decision made by the county to allow Bernard Quaife to play as a specialist batsman.[3] Baker played 28 times that summer, and ended the year with 38 dismissals (33 caught; five stumped), although in any single match he never claimed more than the four dismissals (all caught) he managed against Somerset in June.[4]

Baker played no first-class cricket after the 1934 season.

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