Lives in Cricket No 34 - Frank Mitchell

127 He played first-class cricket for the following teams in this order: Cambridge University, Yorkshire, XI of Yorkshire, South, Gentlemen, F.Mitchell’s XI, MCC, A.J.Webbe’s XI, P.F.Warner’s XI, Lord Hawke’s XI, England, C.I.Thornton’s XI, The Rest, London County, B.J.T.Bosanquet’s XI, Transvaal, South Africans and South Africa. CricketArchive treats the match in which Mitchell played for XI of Yorkshire against XI of Lancashire in 1894 as not being a Yorkshire CCC match, and records Mitchell as playing for Yorkshire on 82 occasions. The Yorkshire CCC have for many years regarded that game as a full Yorkshire match, and thus in their county statistics show Mitchell as a Yorkshire player in 83 games. On either version the match is recorded as being first-class. First-class Cricket: Bowling (1894-1899) Season  Balls Mdns Runs Wkts BB Ave 5wI 1894 (England) 931 57 455 23 5-57 19.78 1 1895 (England) 320 10 227 5 2-65 45.40 0 1895 (Ireland) 55 10 1 2 2-1 0.50 0 1895 (USA) 25 2 10 1 1-6 10.00 0 1896 (England) 145 13 55 3 2-14 18.33 0 1897 (England) 135 7 70 1 1-34 70.00 0 1899 (England) 10 1 16 1 1-16 16.00 0 1621 100 834 36 5-57 23.16 1 Note: Mitchell’s overs were all of five balls. 23 of his victims were caught, 12 bowled and one lbw. His best bowling was 5 for 57 for Cambridge University against Surrey in 1894, when he dismissed the top four batsmen in the order. First-class Centuries (17) Score For Opponents Venue Year 191 1 Cambridge U Somerset Fenner’s 1895 110 1 Cambridge U Sussex Hove 1896 133 1 MCC Gentlemen of Philadelphia Lord’s 1897 161 1 MCC Cambridge U Lord’s 1898 162 1 Lord Hawke’s XI Transvaal Johannesburg 1899 100 1 Yorkshire Gloucestershire Bristol 1899 194 1 Yorkshire Leicestershire Leicester 1899 121 1 Yorkshire Middlesex Bradford 1899 100 1 Yorkshire Hampshire Bournemouth 1901 100 1 Yorkshire Middlesex Lord’s 1901 106* 1 Yorkshire Surrey Bradford 1901 162* 1 Yorkshire Warwickshire Birmingham 1901 122 1 Yorkshire Leicestershire Scarborough 1901 116* 1 Yorkshire Warwickshire Bradford 1901 106 2 Yorkshire Lancashire Leeds 1901 102 1 Transvaal Griqualand W Port Elizabeth 1903 102* 1 South Africans Cambridge U Fenner’s 1904 Career Statistics