Harry Killick (13 July 1837 – 22 November 1877) was an English

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er. Killick was a left-handed

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who bowls right-arm roundarm medium. He was born at Crabtree,

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. Killick made his first-class debut for

against

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in 1866. Killick played first-class cricket for Sussex to 1875, making a total of forty appearances, the last of which came against

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at the

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. In his forty first-class appearances for the county, he scored 957 runs at an

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of 14.07, with a high score of 78. This score was his only

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for Sussex and came against Surrey in 1869. With the ball, he took 6 wickets at a

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of 36.50, with best figures of 3/37. In addition to playing first-class cricket for Sussex, Killick made first-class appearances for other teams. He made a single first-class appearance for a

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team against a

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in 1870, a match in which he recorded his only other first-class half century with a score of 55. In that same year he made a single appearance for the

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against the

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at The Oval, as well as making his first appearance for a

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against a

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. He made a second appearance for the United South of England Eleven against

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in 1874. As well as playing the game, Killick also umpired it, standing in nineteen first-class matches from 1873 1877. He died at

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, Sussex, on 22 November 1877. His nephew, Ernest Killick, also played first-class cricket.

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