Harold Pope was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 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. He was a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler who played for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...

 in 1939 and 1946.

Pope made his first-class debut just before the outbreak of the Second World War against a team of West Indians, though he was not to make his County Championship debut until the first year the competition was staged following the War.

A lower-order batsman, his frequent bowling attack could not stop Derbyshire from finishing in a lowly position in the 1946 County Championship, and he was to finish with an average for the season of only seven.

Pope's brothers were onetime Test cricketer George, who played for Derbyshire for fifteen years, and Alf Pope

Alf Pope

Alfred Vardy Pope was an English cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire between 1930 and 1939. He was in the club's championship winning team of 1936 and took 555 wickets overall....

, who played first-class cricket for nine years.

External links

• Harold Pope at Cricket Archive