About: James Baker (English cricketer)     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:Person, within Data Space : dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com/c/6ETAR6s4tV

James Bray Baker (1792 – 30 January 1839) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1816 to 1828. He was born at Hailsham in Sussex and was mainly associated with Sussex cricket teams. Baker was a member of the Sussex team in two of the three roundarm trial matches against England teams in 1827 played to decide whether roundarm bowling should be legalised. He was described as a "capital but not very safe hitter and a safe field" and was originally a farmer before becoming a publican in Hailsham later in life. He died in the village in January 1839.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • James Baker (English cricketer) (en)
rdfs:comment
  • James Bray Baker (1792 – 30 January 1839) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1816 to 1828. He was born at Hailsham in Sussex and was mainly associated with Sussex cricket teams. Baker was a member of the Sussex team in two of the three roundarm trial matches against England teams in 1827 played to decide whether roundarm bowling should be legalised. He was described as a "capital but not very safe hitter and a safe field" and was originally a farmer before becoming a publican in Hailsham later in life. He died in the village in January 1839. (en)
foaf:name
  • James Baker (en)
name
  • James Baker (en)
birth place
death place
death place
  • Hailsham, Sussex (en)
birth place
dct:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
Link from a Wikipage to an external page
sameAs
top score
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
birth date
club
date
death date
full name
  • James Bray Baker (en)
matches
source
type
year
runs
has abstract
  • James Bray Baker (1792 – 30 January 1839) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1816 to 1828. He was born at Hailsham in Sussex and was mainly associated with Sussex cricket teams. Baker played in 15 first-class matches, making his first-class debut for a Sussex side against Epsom at Lord's in 1816. He played seven matches for Sussex sides, making his final first-class appearance for the side in 1828 against an England XI. He played four matches for The Bs against England XIs, and four for Kent sides, all as a given man against Sussex in 1825 and 1826 in matches organised by the Hawkhurst club, the first matches played between two county sides since the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Baker was a member of the Hawkhurst side; the village is in Kent and the cricket team was considered one of the best sides in England at the time. He scored a total of 219 runs in 27 innings with a batting average of 8.42 runs per innings. Baker was a member of the Sussex team in two of the three roundarm trial matches against England teams in 1827 played to decide whether roundarm bowling should be legalised. He was described as a "capital but not very safe hitter and a safe field" and was originally a farmer before becoming a publican in Hailsham later in life. He died in the village in January 1839. (en)
100s/50s
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git147 as of Sep 06 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3332 as of Dec 5 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 57 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software