Kenneth William Cecil Dobson (28 August 1900 — 6 March 1960) 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. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace 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...

 and Warwickshire

Warwickshire County Cricket Club

Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire. Its limited overs team is called the Warwickshire Bears. Their kit colours are black and gold and the shirt sponsor...

.

Dobson was born in Barrow upon Trent

Barrow upon Trent

Barrow upon Trent is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. The village is south of Derby, and between the River Trent and the Trent and Mersey Canal . According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 546...

, Derbyshire

Derbyshire

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, the son of Frederick William Dobson and his wife Agnes Eadie. He played three County Cricket matches for Derbyshire in May 1920. In the first game against Yorkshire

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

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, he was stumped for a duck in his first innings and bowled by two-time Test cricketer Abe Waddington

Abe Waddington

Abraham "Abe" Waddington, sometimes known as Abram Waddington , was a professional cricketer for Yorkshire, who played in two Test matches for England against Australia in 1920–21. Between 1919 and 1927 Waddington made 255 appearances for Yorkshire, and in all first-class cricket played in 266...

 in the second. In 1923 he played a minor counties game for Staffordshire

Staffordshire County Cricket Club

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. Finally he played two games in the 1925 season, for Warwickshire. Dobson was a tailend batsman and an occasional bowler.

Dobson died in Torquay

Torquay

Torquay is a town in the unitary authority area of Torbay and ceremonial county of Devon, England. It lies south of Exeter along the A380 on the north of Torbay, north-east of Plymouth and adjoins the neighbouring town of Paignton on the west of the bay. Torquay’s population of 63,998 during the...

 aged 60. His uncles John Eadie

John Eadie (cricketer)

John Thom Clarke Eadie was an English brewer and cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1882.Eadie was born in Burton-on-Trent Staffordshire, the son of James Eadie and his wife Jean. His father, who was from Scotland, had established the James Eadie brewery company at Burton in 1854...

 and William Eadie

William Eadie

William Stewart Eadie was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1885 and 1899.Eadie was born in Burton-on-Trent Staffordshire, the son of James Eadie and his wife Jean. His father, who was from Scotland, had established the James Eadie brewery company at Burton in 1854.Eadie made...

also represented Derbyshire in County Cricket.

External links

• Kenneth Dobson at Cricket Archive