deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date bowling tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting image caption fullname birth_place column international source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls 644 21 december 1939 1 1 / & ndash ; 1903 2011 11 january 1868 right-arm fast 1 netherlands near haarlem , north holland , netherlands london county 2 left-handed cj posthuma and wg grace.jpg posthuma -lrb- left -rrb- beside w.g. grace carst jan posthuma haarlem , north holland , netherlands first-class true http://cricketarchive.com/archive/players/6/6294/6294.html cricketarchive 1868 1 11 yes 45 23 & ndash ; / & ndash ; 5 carst posthuma

carst posthuma

carst posthuma -lrb- 11 january 1868 in haarlem -- 21 december 1939 , near haarlem -rrb- was a dutch cricket player of the late 19th/early 20th century .
he was a left-handed batsman and left-arm fast bowler .
he played 72 times for the dutch national team up to 1928 , when he would have been sixty years old .
he holds the dutch record for most wickets in a career , taking 2338 wickets at an average of 8.67 throughout his playing career .
he was also the first dutchman to take 100 wickets in a season in 1900 , and the first to score a century in domestic cricket in 1894 .
perhaps the highest profile time of his career came in 1903 when he played five first-class games for w. g. grace 's london county cricket club .
in his five matches , he took 23 wickets at an average of 15.04 , with best bowling figures of 7/68 coming against leicestershire .
