Thomas Tait (cricketer)
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Thomas Tait was an English
English people
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 first-class cricket
First-class cricket
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er, who played two matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club
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 in 1898 and 1899.

Born in Langley Moor
Langley Moor
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, County Durham
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, England
England
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, Tait was a right-handed batsman, who scored seven runs in three innings with one not out, at an average of 3.50. He also took one catch.

Tait died in September 1954 in Brierley
Brierley
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, Hemsworth
Hemsworth
Hemsworth is a small town and civil parish on the edge of West Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the City of Wakefield, and has a population of 13,311....

, Yorkshire
Yorkshire
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, England, aged 81.

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