Henry Evans was an English

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 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 for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 between 1878 and 1882.

Evans was born in Stoneyford

Stoneyford

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, Derbyshire

Derbyshire

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 the son of Thomas Evans, a farmer. He became a clerk with the Midland Railway.

Evans played his first game for Derbyshire in the 1878 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1878

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1878 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire played their eighth season.Nottinghamshire played Derbyshire again after a two year break, joining Yorkshire Hampshire, Lancashire and Kent as the fifth county to play Derbyshire-1878 season:In 1878,...

 against Yorkshire. He next played three matches during the 1881 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1881

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1881 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for ten years. The team played nine first class matches and won two of them-1881 season:...

. In the 1882 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1882

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1882 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for eleven years. The team played eight first class matches and won one of them-1882 season:...

 he played one further first-class match, against a touring Australian team.

Evans was a right-arm medium-fast bowler and took 19 wickets at an average of 13.26 and had a best performance of 7-47. He was a right-handed middle order batsman and played 10 innings in 5 matches. His top score was 10 and his average 4.10.

In 1888 Evans moved to Glasgow, as an assistant traffic manager for a railway company. He died in Spondon

Spondon

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His brother Thomas Evans

Thomas Evans (cricketer)

Thomas Evans was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire in 1883.Evans was born in Stoneyford, Derbyshire. He made his debut for Derbyshire in the 1883 season in the year after his brother Henry Evans stopped playing for the club. His first match was against MCC...

, played for Derbyshire during the 1883 season.