Lives in Cricket No 29 - AN Hornby

114 Career Statistics 104 Gentlemen¹ Players Prince’s 1873 144 Gentlemen¹ Players The Oval 1877 105 England¹ Gloucs & Yorkshire Lord’s 1877 100 Lancashire² Gloucestershire Old Trafford 1878 126 Lancashire² Surrey The Oval 1880 188 Lancashire¹ Derbyshire Old Trafford 1881 102 Lancashire¹ Kent Old Trafford 1881 145 Lancashire¹ Derbyshire Derby 1881 121* MCC² Cambridge Univ Lord’s 1882 131 Lancashire¹ Middlesex Lord’s 1882 111 Lancashire¹ Oxford Univ Old Trafford 1886 161 Lancashire¹ Surrey Liverpool 1886 105 MCC¹ Kent Lord’s 1887 Note: The index figures ¹ and ² above indicate the innings in which the feat was achieved. Edward Kenworthy and Cecil Lumsden Hornby Two of Albert Hornby’s older brothers played briefly in first-class cricket. E.K., born in 1839, played one match for Gentlemen of the North at Beeston in 1862, scoring 31 in his only innings and taking one catch. C.L., born in 1843, played in two matches, one for the Gentlemen of England in 1874 and one for Lancashire in 1877. In these, he scored 27 runs at 9.00, took one for 3 in two four-ball overs and held no catches. Sources for all the above: www. cricketarchive.com and Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.