Edward Baker (Worcestershire cricketer)

Edward Stanley Baker (9 November 1910 – 15 March 1992) was an English first-class cricketer: a wicket-keeper who played 32 first-class matches for Worcestershire in the 1930s.

For other cricketers with the same name, see Edward Baker (cricketer, born 1892) and Edward Baker (Kent cricketer).

Edward Baker

Personal information
Full name	Edward Stanley Baker
Born	(1910-11-09)9 November 1910 Moseley, Birmingham, England
Died	15 March 1992(1992-03-15) (aged 81) Great Dunmow, Essex, England
Batting	Right-handed
Role	Wicket-keeper
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1933–1934	Worcestershire
Career statistics
Competition FC Matches 32 Runs scored 160 Batting average 6.40 100s/50s 0/0 Top score 21* Balls bowled 0 Wickets 0 Bowling average - 5 wickets in innings 0 10 wickets in match 0 Best bowling - Catches/stumpings 36/5
Source: , 4 August 2008

Baker attended, and played for, King Edward's School in Birmingham.[1] He made his first-class debut for Worcestershire against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham in 1933, taking two catches and scoring 0 and 5.[2] He appeared thrice more that summer, taking a single catch and scoring two runs in his final two innings.

In 1934 Baker was Worcestershire's regular wicket-keeper, a deliberate decision made by the county to allow Bernard Quaife to play as a specialist batsman.[3] Baker played 28 times that summer, and ended the year with 38 dismissals (33 caught; five stumped), claiming a maximum of four dismissals in a single game, against Somerset in June.[4]

Baker played no first-class cricket after the 1934 season.

Notes

1. "King Edward's School Birmingham v Bromsgrove School in 1927". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
2. "Gloucestershire v Worcestershire in 1933". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
3. Obituary. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1993.
4. "Worcestershire v Somerset in 1934". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2008-08-04.

References

• Edward Baker from CricketArchive
• Edward Baker at ESPNcricinfo