John Frame (cricketer)
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John Frame (born 1733 at Warlingham, Surrey; died 11 October 1796, probably at Dartford, Kent) was an English cricketer and arguably the first great fast bowler in the game's history. His first-class career spanned the years 1749 to 1774.
He was described by John Nyren as one of the Hambledon Club’s greatest opponents and as "the other principal with Lumpy". Nyren says he remembers little of Frame, except that he was an unusually stout man for a cricketer.
Frame was only 16 when he first played in a major match on Friday 2 & Saturday 3 June 1749 for Surrey v All-England at Dartford Brent. Surrey won by 2 wickets.
Frame's last known major appearance was for All-England v Hampshire at Sevenoaks Vine on Friday 8 & Saturday 9 July 1774. Hampshire, who had Lumpy as a given man, won by 169 runs.
[edit] References
- Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians - various publications
- At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742 – 1751 by F S Ashley-Cooper in Cricket Magazine (1900) (ASW)
- Cricket Scores 1730 - 1773 by H T Waghorn (WCS)
- Dartford Cricket Club website (DCC)
- Early Kent Cricketers by John Goulstone (EKC)
- Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket by G B Buckley (FL18)
- Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket by G B Buckley (FLPV)
- Kent Cricket Matches by F S Ashley-Cooper (KCM)
- Pre-Victorian Sussex Cricket by HF & AP Squire (PVSC)
- Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 by Arthur Haygarth (SBnnn)
- The Dawn of Cricket by H T Waghorn (WDC)
