Edward James Sheffield (20 June 1908 – 28 April 1971) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Surrey and Kent between 1930 and 1933.[1] He was born at New Eltham in south-east London and died at Chobham in Surrey.[2]
Sheffield was a professional right-arm in-swing fast-medium bowler and a useful right-handed lower-order batsman who had a briefly successful cricket career before he was forced to retire through back injury.[3] He played for Surrey's second eleven in the Minor Counties competition from 1928 and made his first-class debut in 1930.[1] He played regularly for Surrey in 1931 until injury ended his season early and topped the county's bowling averages with 64 wickets at 19.64 runs per wicket; the wickets included a return of seven for 123 against Somerset in his first match of the season which were the best innings figures of his career.[4] He also showed occasional batting ability, including an unbeaten innings of 64 in the game against Essex.[5]
Injury meant that Sheffield's cricket career did not develop from this promising beginning: he played a few games in 1932 but was not re-engaged by Surrey at the end of the season, and in five matches for Kent in 1933 he took only 10 wickets, and did not return for the 1934 season.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Edward Sheffield". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ^ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part Two: 1919–1939, pp. 134–135. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 8 August 2022.)
- ^ "Obituaries in 1971". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack/www.espncricinfo.com. 27 January 2006. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
- ^ "Scorecard: Surrey v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 13 May 1931. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
- ^ "Scorecard: Essex v Surrey". www.cricketarchive.com. 20 June 1931. Retrieved 2 July 2016.