Charles Cumberland

Charles Cumberland (21 May 1764 – 12 May 1835) was an English cricketer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries who is known to have played in 26 matches which are retrospectively rated first-class. Cumberland's known cricket career spanned the 1787 to 1805 seasons. Though mostly associated with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and its predecessor the White Conduit Club, he also played for England XIs as well as county teams associated with Hampshire, Kent and Middlesex and for other sides. Cumberland was an accomplished underarm bowler. In his first-class career, he took 76 wickets in his 26 matches, twice achieving ten in a match. Cricket career Cumberland was born in 1764 and attended Westminster School. He is known to have lived in Tunbridge Wells. He joined the British Army and attained the rank of captain while he was still playing cricket. He was a member of the White Conduit Club and the earliest cricket match he is known to have played in was in June 1787 at the newly established Lord's Old Ground against a Middlesex XI. One newspaper reported that "the excellence of Mr Cumberland's bowling is well known", and another that "Mr Cumberland's bowling was much commended". Having injured his ankle by "attempting to leap over a rail", he missed the next White Conduit v Middlesex match at Lord's on later in the same month. The match report described him as "second to none as a bowler and second to few as a fieldsman".