Charles Frederick Henry Prince (11 September 1874 – 2 February 1949) was a South African

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who played in one

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in 1899.

Career

Prince was born in

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, and attended

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. W. A. Bettesworth
"Chats on the Cricket Field"
''Cricket'', 1 August 1901, pp. 305–6. A right-handed batsman and

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, he played his first first-class match for

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in April 1895, when he opened the batting and kept wicket in the final of the

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. In later years he also played for

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and Eastern Province. His most successful match with the bat was in Border's four-wicket victory over

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in 1897–98, when he opened the batting and made 60 and 61, the two highest scores on either side in the match. Prince's one Test match was the second match of the 1898–99 series against the

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led by

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, having led by 85 on the first innings, were dismissed for just 35 in the second innings and lost the match by 210 runs. Prince, playing purely as a lower-order batsman, scored 5 and 1. In 1901, Prince was a member of the South African side that visited England at the height of the

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. No Tests were played on that tour, but several matches were arranged against first-class counties. In England, a few days before the tour began, Prince played a first-class match for

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's London County team against

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. He played his last first-class matches in the 1904–05 season for Western Province.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prince, Charles 1874 births 1949 deaths South Africa Test cricketers South African cricketers Western Province cricketers Border cricketers Eastern Province cricketers London County cricketers Alumni of Diocesan College, Cape Town