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Reginald Trevor Crawford (11 June 1882 – 15 November 1945) was an English cricketer who played as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler in first-class cricket between 1901 and 1911.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Player Profile: Reginald Crawford )〕 He played mainly for Leicestershire from 1901 to 1907, returning for a single match in both 1910 and 1911, and also played for amateur teams. He was born in Leicester and died at Swiss Cottage, London. He was the brother of the England Test cricketer Jack Crawford and of the Surrey and Leicestershire first-class cricketer Vivian Crawford. ==Early career and successes== Though born in Leicester, Crawford was brought up in Surrey where his father had become chaplain at the Cane Hill mental hospital at Coulsdon. He played amateur cricket in Surrey and then Minor Counties cricket for Surrey's second team in 1900. With Surrey having strength in both bowling and batting at this time, Crawford moved in 1901 to play first-class cricket for Leicestershire, having a birth qualification for the team. He became pretty much a regular in the first team as a teenager, featuring in 15 county games in his first season, though his figures were not impressive, with only 11 first-class wickets and a batting average of 13.96.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 First-class Bowling in each Season by Reginald Crawford )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 First-class Batting and Fielding in each Season by Reginald Crawford )〕 The 1902 season was his best in first-class cricket. He made 852 runs at an average of 25.05 and took 40 wickets at 23.70.〔〔 In late June and aged just 20, as the only amateur in the team, he was captain of what ''The Times'' referred to as "a scratch side playing under the title of 'An England Eleven'" in a "hastily-arranged" game with the Australian touring team at Bradford, put together because of the late postponement of the coronation of King Edward VII. The match, fairly easily won by the Australians, was notable for the bowling performance of Herbert Knutton, who had played one first-class match for Warwickshire in 1894 without taking a wicket and this time took nine Australian first-innings wickets for 100 runs, adding a tenth when the touring side needed just 42 to win; Knutton never played first-class cricket again. Crawford distinguished himself in the second England XI innings with a score of 90, his highest first-class score to date, "a fine piece of hitting (which) saved the scratch side from the ignominy of an innings defeat", ''The Times'' reported. A month later, Crawford improved on his best score: in the match against Worcestershire at Aylestone Road cricket ground, Leicester, he and the bowler William Odell came together with Leicestershire at 61 for eight wickets and proceeded to put on 160 for the ninth wicket. The partnership remains, 111 years on, Leicestershire's best in first-class cricket for the ninth wicket and is 75 years older than any of the county's other first-class partnership records.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Highest Partnership for each Wicket for Leicestershire )〕 Crawford was left unbeaten on 99 when first Odell was run out and then, one run later, the No 11 batsman, Arthur Emmett, was also run out, without scoring. Crawford never achieved a century in first-class cricket; the 99 not out remained his best score. 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「Reginald Crawford (cricketer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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