James Maxwell (cricketer)

James Maxwell

Personal information
Full name	James Maxwell
Born	13 January 1883 Taunton, Somerset, England
Died	27 December 1967 (aged 84) Taunton, Somerset, England
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm fast-medium
Role	All-rounder
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1906–08	Somerset
1912	South Wales
First-class debut	17 May 1906 Somerset v Warwickshire
Last First-class	22 June 1912 South Wales v South Africans
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 11 Runs scored 218 Batting average 16.76 100s/50s –/1 Top score 67* Balls bowled 1368 Wickets 24 Bowling average 38.20 5 wickets in innings 1 10 wickets in match – Best bowling 5/20 Catches/stumpings 6/–
Source: CricketArchive, 13 March 2011

James Maxwell (13 January 1883 – 27 December 1967) played first-class cricket for Somerset from 1906 to 1908.^[1] He was born and died at Taunton, Somerset.

Maxwell was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. In first-class cricket for Somerset he tended to bat low in the batting order, but against Gloucestershire at Bath in 1906, batting at No 10, he made an unbeaten 67, his highest first-class score.^[2] In eight matches for Somerset in 1906 his bowling was not successful, but when he returned for two games in 1908 he took five Lancashire wickets for 63 runs in the first innings of the match at Liverpool.^[3]

From 1909, Maxwell played regularly as a professional cricketer in South Wales for the Glamorgan side, which was not then of first-class status. He appeared in 52 Minor Counties matches for Glamorgan.^[4] As at Somerset, he initially batted low in the batting order, but against Surrey's second eleven in 1910, batting at No 10, he scored 108.^[5] Thereafter, he often batted in the middle order. He was successful as a bowler too: for example, against the weak Carmarthenshire side in 1911, he took 13 wickets in the match for 64 runs.^[6] In 1912, he played in a single first-class fixture for a South Wales cricket team against the South Africans, top-scoring in the home side's second innings.^[7] He played Minor Counties cricket for Glamorgan up to the First World War, but did not reappear after the war.

References

1. "James Maxwell". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2011-03-06.
2. "Scorecard: Somerset v Gloucestershire". www.cricketarchive.com. 1906-06-14. Retrieved 2011-03-11.
3. "Scorecard: Lancashire v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 1908-06-25. Retrieved 2011-03-11.
4. "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by James Maxwell". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2011-03-11.
5. "Scorecard: Glamorgan v Surrey Second Eleven". www.cricketarchive.com. 1910-08-05. Retrieved 2011-03-11.
6. "Scorecard: Glamorgan v Carmarthenshire". www.cricketarchive.com. 1911-07-10. Retrieved 2011-03-11.
7. "Scorecard: South Wales v South Africans". www.cricketarchive.com. 1912-06-12. Retrieved 2011-03-11.