Colin Noel Bickley Hurt (16 December 1893 — 31 December 1972) was an English

cricket Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...

er who played for

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in 1914. Hurt was born in

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. He played three first-class matches for Derbyshire during July 1914, and, in his second match, against

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, was one of the three batsmen taken in a hat-trick scored by John Bullough. Hunt was a right-handed lower-order batsman and played 5 innings in 4 first-class matches. His top score was 13 and his average 4.6. He was a right-arm medium-pace bowler and bowled 3 overs without taking a wicket. The

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brought a stop to the championship and Hurt joined the 6th Bn, East Lancashire Regiment. He was a 2nd Lieutenant and was wounded in August 1915.Extracts from Ray Westlake ''British Regiments at Gallipoli''
/ref> Hurt died at Little Common, Bexhill,

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at the age of 79.

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