James Street 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 who played for Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

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 between 1863 and 1878. A round arm

Roundarm bowling

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 fast bowler, he took 534 of his 540 first-class

First-class cricket

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 wickets for Surrey. Subsequently he became an umpire

Umpire (cricket)

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, appearing in that role between 1873 and 1899, but in only two matches before 1877. He umpired in one Test Match

Test cricket

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, that between England and Australia at The Oval

The Oval

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 on 11 and 12 August 1890.

He did not become a regular in the Surrey side until 1868, and even after he had established himself his bowling figures were not especially good by the standards of the time. His best seasons were 1872 and 1873, when he took 60 wickets at an average of 15.11 and then 70 at 17.57.

His brother, George Street, and his son, Alfred Street

Alfred Street (cricket umpire)

Alfred Edward Street, born at Godalming, Surrey, on 7 July 1869 and died at Exmouth, Devon, on 18 February 1951, was a cricket player for Surrey and later a respected cricket umpire who stood in several Test matches between 1912 and 1926....

, were both umpires, his son also playing for Surrey as well as surpassing his father by umpiring in seven Tests.