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Ephraim Lockwood

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Ephraim Lockwood (4 April 1845 – 19 December 1921) was an English first-class cricketer, and captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club in the 1876 and 1877 seasons. [1] Lockwood (left) Contents 1 Life and career 2 Further reading 3 References 4 External links Life and career Lockwood was born at Lascelles Hall, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England and was a right-handed batsman, right-arm slow-medium roundarm bowler and occasional wicket-keeper. Lockwood played in 328 matches from 1868 to 1884, 214 of them for his native Yorkshire. [1] He also appeared for Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire (1872–1883), North of England (1869–1883), United North of England Eleven (1870–1879), Players of the North (1873–1880), All England Eleven (1876), The Players (1869–1883), England (1874–1878), Gloucestershire and Yorkshire (1877), England XI (1879–1884), R Daft's American XI (1880), Over 30 (1880–1881), T Emmett's XI (1881–1883), Lord Sheffield's XI (1881), A Shaw's XI (1882), Lancashir...

Luke Greenwood

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Luke Greenwood (13 July 1834 – 1 November 1909) was an English first-class cricketer, who played 48 matches for Sheffield and Yorkshire from 1861 [1] to 1874. Born in Cowmes, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, Greenwood was a useful player verging on all-rounder, who also played for Yorkshire with Stockton-on-Tees (1861), the North of England (1863-1864), the United England Eleven (1865), the Players (1865-1866), England (1867), North of the Thames (1868) and the United North of England Eleven (1870-1875), appearing in sixty nine matches all together. A right-handed lower order batsman, he scored 1,244 runs at 11.96, with a best of 83 against Surrey. A right arm fast round arm bowler, he took 113 wickets at 18.28, with a best of 8 for 35 against Cambridgeshire. He also took 6 for 43 against Surrey in the County Championship. Greenwood turned to umpiring even before his playing career was finished. He umpired forty six first-class matches between 1862 and 1886. With Bob Thoms, he offic...