Alfred Clarke was an English professional cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played first-class cricket

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 from 1851 to 1863. He was mainly associated with Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Nottinghamshire, and the current county champions. Its limited overs team is called the Nottinghamshire Outlaws...

 and made 55 known appearances in first-class matches.

Clarke was the son of William Clarke and he played for the All-England Eleven

All-England Eleven

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, founded by his father, from 1851 until his retirement. He made 10 appearances for the North

North of England cricket team

The North of England appeared in first-class cricket between 1836 and 1961, most often in the showcase North v. South matches against the South of England although there were also games against touring teams, MCC and others....

 in the North v South series and was a member of the English cricket team in Australia in 1863–64

English cricket team in Australia in 1863–64

An England cricket team toured Australia in 1863-64. This was the second tour of Australia by an English team, the first having been in 1861-62.-Squad:...

 led by his Nottinghamshire colleague George Parr

George Parr (cricketer)

George Parr was an English cricketer, whose first-class career lasted from 1844 to 1870....

. Clarke retired from cricket when the tour ended.