testdebutagainst deliveries death_date columns testcap catches/stumpings onetest year birth_date bowling tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting name fullname birth_place column international nickname testdebutdate source date runs testdebutyear wickets s/s matches article_title
australia balls 0 13036 30 july 1889 2 12 0 ; / & ndash ; 127 / & ndash true 1868 -- 1879 1866 -- 1869 1879 7 june 1846 right arm medium & ndash ; 3 england port-of-spain , trinidad kent cambridge university & ndash ; 19 right-handed charlie absolom charles alfred absolom blackheath , kent , england test first-class true charlie , cambridge navvy 2 january http://www.cricketarchive.com/archive/players/0/26/26.html cricketarchive 1846 6 7 yes 58 2515 1879 & ndash ; 282 0/1 0/4 1 99 charlie absolom

charlie absolom

charles alfred absolom -lrb- 7 june 1846 -- 30 july 1889 -rrb- played cricket for cambridge university , kent and england in the period from 1866 to 1879 .
absolom was born at blackheath , kent , the son of edward absolom .
he was educated at a school in calne in wiltshire , and at trinity college , cambridge , and was awarded cricket and athletics blues at cambridge university .
he was nicknamed `` cambridge navvy '' , presumably because of his physique .
in 18 matches for the university he took over 100 wickets , and played in the varsity match in 1866 , 1867 , 1868 and 1869 .
he took 27 wickets in the four matches and was on the winning cambridge side in 1868 and 1869 .
he played several games for gentlemen vs players and in 1868 started playing for kent .
after cambridge he enrolled at inner temple but did not complete his law studies .
as an amateur cricketer , absolom toured australia with lord harris 's team in 1878/9 and played in the only test of that tour .
although selected as a bowler , his main performance was with the bat .
after australia 's `` demon bowler '' fred spofforth had taken a hat-trick which helped reduce the english team to 26 for 7 , absolom came in and made 52 .
however , he was not one of the seven englishmen to bowl in the australian innings .
australia went on to win the game by 10 wickets .
absolom completed his career with kent in the summer of 1879 after taking 87 wickets in 57 matches .
absolom enjoyed travel , particularly in the americas , and he became a ship 's purser .
he died aged 43 when he was accidentally buried by a misplaced load of sugar whilst loading at port of spain in trinidad .
