John Howard Comber (8 January 1861 – 1903) was an English
cricket
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er. Comber's
batting and
bowling
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style is unknown. He was born at
Brighton
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,
Sussex
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and died at
Lowell,
Massachusetts
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.
Comber made his
first-class debut for
Sussex
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against
Kent
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at
Bat and Ball Ground, Gravesend in 1885. He made two further first-class appearances for Sussex that season, against
Hampshire
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at the
County Ground, Southampton and
Gloucestershire
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at the
College Ground, Cheltenham
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. He struggled in his three first-class matches, scoring just 28 runs at an
average
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of 5.60, with a high score of 8.
At some point later in his life he moved to the United States where in 1892 he is recorded as an "overseer" in his marriage to Lucy Johnson in Lowell, Massachusetts; they had a daughter, also Lucy, in 1895. He featured in a match for
Massachusetts
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against
Lord Hawke's XI in 1894.
He died in 1903, but the precise date of death is not known.
References
External links
John Comberat
ESPNcricinfo
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John Comberat CricketArchive
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1861 births
1903 deaths
19th-century male tennis players
Cricketers from Brighton
English cricketers
Sussex cricketers
English emigrants to the United States