Edward Sweet-Escott (27 July 1879 — 1 July 1956) was an English

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er. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. He was born in

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and died in

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. Sweet-Escott had begun playing for

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during the 1902 Minor Counties Championship season, in which he played regularly between 1904 and 1910. He then took a three-year sabbatical from the game, during which time he took up

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, securing two Welsh caps. The 1909 season saw Sweet-Escott participate in the Minor Counties Championship final, won by opponents

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. The following season, both Glamorgan and Wiltshire moved to the South and West division. Following his sabbatical, Sweet-Escott returned to Minor Counties cricket, but his cricket playing was interrupted by the First World War; he only played one Minor Counties fixture after the war. During the 1921 season, he made his first and only County Championship appearance in a defeat against

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, scoring a duck in the first innings, and 13 runs in the second. Sweet-Escott's brother was

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international

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player

Ralph Sweet-Escott Ralph Bond Sweet-Escott (11 January 1869 – 11 November 1907) was an England, English-born international rugby union half back who played club rugby for Cardiff RFC, Cardiff and was capped three times for Wales national rugby union team, Wales ...

; his brother-in-law was onetime

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cricketer William Hancock.

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Edward Sweet-Escott
at Cricket Archive 1879 births 1956 deaths English cricketers Glamorgan cricketers English male field hockey players {{England-fieldhockey-bio-stub