Theodore Hind Hoyle (19 March 1884 – 2 June 1953) was an English
first-class cricket
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er, who played one game for
Yorkshire County Cricket Club
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against
Northamptonshire
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two unitary authorities: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. It is ...
at Bramall Lane in 1919.
He also appeared for the Yorkshire Second XI in the same year, and the Yorkshire Council in 1920.
Born in
Halifax
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,
Yorkshire
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,
England
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, Hoyle was a
wicket-keeper
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, and was dismissed for seven and a
duck
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, by
Claude Woolley
Claud Neville Woolley (5 May 1886 – 3 November 1962) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire and Northamptonshire. He also served as a first-class umpire and stood in one Test during the 1948 Ashes series. A ...
. He also
stumped
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Davies off the bowling of
Wilfred Rhodes
Wilfred Rhodes (29 October 1877 – 8 July 1973) was an English professional cricketer who played 58 Test matches for England between 1899 and 1930. In Tests, Rhodes took 127 wickets and scored 2,325 runs, becoming the first Englishman ...
, his only dismissal in first-class cricket.
Hoyle died in June 1953, in
Hull
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* Submarine hull
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* Affine hull, in affi ...
, Yorkshire.
References
External links
Cricinfo Profile
Yorkshire cricketers
1884 births
1953 deaths
Cricketers from Halifax, West Yorkshire
English cricketers
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