Richard Hill was an English 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 left-arm fast bowler who played for Somerset

Somerset County Cricket Club

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. He was born in Timsbury

Timsbury, Somerset

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 and died in Westminster

Westminster

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Hill made a single first-class appearance for the team during the 1882 season, against Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Gloucestershire. Its limited overs team is called the Gloucestershire Gladiators....

. From the lower order, he scored a duck in the first innings in which he batted and 7 not out in the second, his first-innings wicket falling courtesy of W. G. Grace

W. G. Grace

William Gilbert Grace, MRCS, LRCP was an English amateur cricketer who is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest players of all time, having a special significance in terms of his importance to the development of the sport...

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Hill bowled eight overs during the match, capturing one wicket, that of onetime Test player James Cranston

James Cranston

James Cranston was an amateur cricketer who was educated at Taunton College in Somerset and went on to play 103 first-class cricket matches for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club between 1876 and 1899...

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Hill's brother, Francis

Francis Hill (cricketer)

Francis Hill was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Somerset. He was born in Timsbury and died in Saskatoon....

, made a single first-class appearance for Somerset during the 1882 season.

External links

• Richard Hill at Cricket Archive