John James Bourne was an English

England

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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 first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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 for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 in 1898.

Bourne was born at Moira, Leicestershire

Moira, Leicestershire

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, the son of Thomas Bourne, a colliery manager and his wife Rose. They lived at Church Gresley

Church Gresley

Church Gresley is a village and former civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. The village is very close to the town of Swadlincote, between the town and Castle Gresley. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 4,805.The toponym "Gresley" is derived...

 where he was a colliery clerk in 1891.

Bourne, with fellow one-timer William Prince

William Prince (cricketer)

William Prince was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire in 1898.Prince was born in Somercotes, Derbyshire, the son of Thomas Prince, a coal miner, and his wife Hannah...

, played one match for Derbyshire in the 1898 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1898

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 which was against Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

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 in July. He was a left-arm medium-pace bowler and took three wickets in over 40 overs during the match. As a left-handed batsman, he batted for just a single innings in the tailend to make 6 runs.

Bourne died in Burton-on-Trent at the age of 80.