Lives in Cricket No 29 - AN Hornby

113 Career Statistics 1890 19 32 2 673 75 22.43 - 4 9 1891 15 23 2 330 57 15.71 - 1 9 1892 9 16 0 210 48 13.12 - - 3 1893 8 14 1 181 38 13.92 - - 4 1894 6 9 0 85 44 9.44 - - 4 1895 8 13 2 196 45* 17.81 - - 6 1896 6 9 0 116 66 12.88 0 1 12 1897 19 22 6 273 32 17.06 - - 29 1898 8 10 0 100 27 10.00 - - 7 1899 3 4 2 116 53 58.00 - 1 3 1906 1 - - - - - - - - Totals 437 710 41 16109 188 24.07 16 74 313/3 Notes: Apart from the Australian season of 1878/79, Hornby played all his first- class cricket in England. His last match was for an England XI v West Indians at Blackpool in July 1906, at the age of 59, when because of lumbago he was replaced during the second day by A.E.Peatfield, who batted in both England innings. Hornby was dismissed caught 327 times (49%); 259 times bowled (39%); 38 times lbw (6%); 24 times stumped (4%); 20 times run out (3%); and hit wicket once. He was dismissed most often by W.G.Grace (25 times) and by Alfred Shaw (21 times). For Lancashire he played 292 matches, scoring 10,649 runs at 24.25, including 10 centuries, and taking 215 catches and two stumpings. First-Class Cricket: Bowling O M R W BB Av 5wi 1870 12 0 40 4 4-40 10.00 - 1872 3 0 8 0 - - - 1875 7 1 20 0 - - - 1878 5 2 5 1 1-2 5.00 - 1878/79 79 48 79 4 2-9 19.75 - 1879 2 1 1 0 - - - 1880 22 10 27 1 1-2 27.00 - 1881 4 0 11 1 1-7 11.00 - 1882 5 0 28 0 - - - 1883 1 0 6 0 - - - 1884 4 0 11 0 - - - 1885 2 0 10 0 - - - 1888 1 0 4 0 - - - 1899 1 0 8 0 - - - Totals 147 62 258 11 4-40 23.45 - Notes: Hornby bowled in 27 of his 437 first-class matches; his overs were of four balls throughout his career apart from a single five-ball over in 1899. He took wickets at the rate of one per 53.90 balls and conceded runs at a rate equivalent to 2.61 per six-ball over. Five of his eleven wickets were bowled, five caught and one stumped. His best bowling return was four for 40 off twelve four-ball overs, with no maidens, for Gentlemen of the North in the first innings of Gentlemen of the South at Beeston in August 1870, the first time he had bowled in first-class cricket. For Lancashire he took, in all, three wickets for 94. First-Class Cricket: Centuries (16) Score For Opponent Venue Season 132 Lancashire¹ Hampshire Old Trafford 1870 103 Gentlemen of North¹ Gentlemen of South Beeston 1870 128 Lancashire¹ Surrey Old Trafford 1873