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George Christopher Collins (21 September 1889–23 January 1949) was an English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club and Marylebone Cricket Club. Born in Gravesend, Kent, Collins learnt his cricket there and at Cobham, where his father Christopher had played under the captaincy of Ivo Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley. His father was subsequently groundsman at the Bat and Ball Ground, Gravesend and later ran a sports outfitters in the town, so it was natural that son should follow father into cricket. He played for lower Kent sides from the age of 16,〔 and made his first-class debut during the 1911 season, in a match against Gloucestershire played in the town of his birth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kent v Gloucestershire in 1911 )〕 Described in his ''Wisden'' obituary as "a splendid right-arm fast bowler and a useful left-handed batsman";〔 Collins appeared in 218 first-class matches, taking 379 wickets and scoring 6,280 runs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=George Collins profile )〕 He also occasionally kept wicket; claiming a stumping off the bowling of Tich Freeman in a 1922 fixture against Yorkshire.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kent v Yorkshire in 1922 ) – Yorkshire's first innings: ''R Kilner st Collins b Freeman 17''.〕 His best bowling performance was in 1922, when after taking six wickets in Nottinghamshire's first innings in a match at Dover's Crabble Athletic Ground, he took all ten wickets in their second innings to bowl Kent to an innings victory.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kent v Nottinghamshire in 1922 )〕 His match figures of 16 for 83 were the second-best match figures at the time recorded, and remain to this day the sixth-best in the county's history.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Most Wickets in a Match for Kent )〕 Outside cricket Collins was a bellringer at Milton-next-Gravesend and an article in ''The Ringing World'' published on 2 May 1913 described him as "hold() the distinction of being, perhaps, the only first class cricketer who is a bellringer in this country", a photograph was included with the article. A note on a later page of the same issue stated that former Australian captain, Monty Noble, was also a ringer, and had visited a number of towers in England during his tours.〔 ==References== 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「George Collins (cricketer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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