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Andrew Ernest Stoddart (11 March 1863 – 4 April 1915) was an English cricketer and rugby union player. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1893. ==Cricket career== Born in South Shields, County Durham, he was the youngest son of a wine merchant, who moved the whole family to Marylebone, London, in 1877. Stoddart made his reputation in club cricket and was playing for Middlesex by 1885. He played 16 Test matches captaining England in 8 games of which he won 3, lost 4 and drew 1. He was a flamboyant right-handed batsman and a right arm medium pace bowler. When he was 23, just a year after his first class debut, he was toying with the idea of giving up his amateur career in England to join his brother in Colorado. His plans changed when he took the record for the highest ever score in cricket at the time with an innings of 485 for Hampstead against Stoics on 4 August 1886.〔(The inexhaustible AE Stoddart )〕 No declarations were allowed in the game and the Stoics, living up to their name, fielded all day without a chance to bat. Stoddart was seventh out, having batted six hours and ten minutes and clubbed one eight, three fives, and 64 fours. The runs were scored at a rapid pace - the score was 370 for 3 at lunch after 150 minutes of play. He made 207 for Hampstead in the next match three days later and on 9 August was playing for Middlesex and made 98, a grand total of 790 runs in a week. Stoddart was a man with a great zest for life in his younger days. He had danced then played cards till dawn before the Stoics game, batted almost through Hampstead's innings of 813, then played tennis, went to the theatre and turned in at 3 a.m. His next innings was against Kent when he posted his maiden first class century in scoring 116. ''Punch'' celebrated the Stoddart Ashes win in 1894-95 with a poem which contained the lines - :Then wrote the queen of England :Whose hand is blessed by God :I must do something handsome :For my dear victorious Stod. Seventy years later, David Frith used ''My dear victorious Stod'' as the title of his acclaimed biography of Stoddart. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andrew Stoddart」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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