Thomas Fletcher (cricketer)
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Thomas Fletcher 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 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...

 during the 1906 season.

Fletcher was born in Heanor
Heanor
Heanor is a town in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England. It is northeast of Derby. According to the census of 2001 the town's population was 22,620.-History:...

, Derbyshire
Derbyshire
Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...

 and played in just a single innings for Derbyshire, during a West Indian tour of England in 1906, in which he played in the lower order. Fletcher was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He scored 28 runs in the first innings before being bowled by Percy Goodman
Percy Goodman
Percy Arnold Goodman was a West Indian cricketer who toured with the both the first two touring sides to England in 1900 and 1906. He was one of the top West Indian batsmen of his day and was also a useful medium pace bowler, especially in his younger days...

, though he did not bat in the second innings, as Derbyshire ran won by a six wicket margin.

Fletcher died in Markeaton
Markeaton
Markeaton is a village within Derby in the East Midlands of England.The name possibly means Boundary - Island Village, which had stood at this site since Medieval times....

 at the age of 73.

Another Derbyshire cricketer, Henry Fletcher
Henry Fletcher (cricketer)
Henry Fletcher was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1907 and 1908.Fletcher was born in Clay Cross, Derbyshire. He made his debut in a match against Sussex in 1907, and played in two further games during the 1907 season. He played two games in the 1908 season, his final game...

, played for Derbyshire between 1907 and 1908, though it is unclear as to whether the two were related.

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