Alfred Ernest Hind (7 April 1878 – 21 March 1947) was an English sportsman who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and represented England at rugby union.
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| Full name | Alfred Ernest Hind | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 April 1878 Preston, Lancashire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 21 March 1947 (aged 68) Oadby, Leicestershire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1898–1901 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1901 | Nottinghamshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal history
editHind was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1878. He was educated at Uppingham School before entering Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1897.[1] He gained four sporting Blues in athletics between 1898 and 1901 and ran the 100 yards in 9.8 seconds on two occasions. He gained a further Blue with the rugby team in 1900. On leaving university he became a solicitor.[2]
Cricket career
editA right arm medium pace bowler and handy lower order batsman, Hind played most of his cricket for Cambridge but also appeared in a first-class match for Nottinghamshire. That match came in the 1901 County Championship, against Leicestershire at Aylestone Road, but in a low scoring encounter but wasn't called on to bowl by his captain Arthur Jones.[3] The previous year he had played a three-day match for Nottinghamshire against the touring West Indians and made what would have been his highest score of 60 except the match wasn't awarded first-class status.[4]
Hind's first year at Cambridge University Cricket Club was his best, claiming 35 wickets at 17.91 in 1898.[5] He took his career best figures of 7 for 30 on debut, in a University Match against CI Thornton's England XI and despite him taking a further two wickets in the second innings they still lost the match.[6] Perhaps the biggest name out of his 80 first-class victims was the great W.G. Grace, whom Hind dismissed when the England Test cricketer was playing for the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1900.[7]
Rugby career
editHind had a long and distinguished rugby career, first representing Cambridge University while a student. He played in the Varsity Match of 1900 and on leaving he joined Leicester full time having made his Tigers debut on 7 October 1899 against Exeter. Hind played 127 times for Leicester between 1899 and 1906. He played in 5 consecutive Midland Counties Cup finals, scoring a hat trick in the 1905 final against Nottingham.[8]
The high point of his career came in the 1905–1906 season when he faced The Original All Blacks three times in 6 weeks, first for Leicester, then Midlands Counties before making his England debut against them on 2 December 1905.[8]
His other cap came the same season when he played against Wales in a Home Nations encounter. In 1903 he toured South Africa with the British Isles. He also played club rugby at Nottingham, mostly as a winger,[9] playing 43 times for the club between 1902 and 1908.[10]
References
edit- ^ "Hind, Alfred Ernest (HNT897AE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Maule, Raymond (1992). The Complete Who's Who of England Rugby Union Internationals. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 77. ISBN 1-873626-10-X.
- ^ "Leicestershire v Nottinghamshire 1901". CricketArchive.
- ^ "Nottinghamshire v West Indians 1900". CricketArchive.
- ^ "First-class Bowling in Each Season by Alfred Hind". CricketArchive.
- ^ "Cambridge University v CI Thornton's England XI 1898". CricketArchive.
- ^ "Marylebone Cricket Club v Cambridge University 1900". CricketArchive.
- ^ a b Farmer, Stuart; Hands, David (2014). Tigers - Official history of Leicester Football Club. The Rugby Development Foundation. p. 376. ISBN 978-0-9930213-0-5.
- ^ "Alfred Hind". Scrum.com.
- ^ "Nottingham Rugby History player list". Retrieved 1 October 2023.