Frederick Hunt

Who was Frederick Hunt?

Frederick Hunt was an English cricketer who played county cricket for Kent in 1897 and 1898, and for Worcestershire between 1900 and 1922. He also played for Worcestershire in 1895 and 1896, before that county's elevation to the County Championship.

He made his first-class debut for Kent against Gloucestershire at Maidstone in late May 1897. In a heavy defeat, he took three wickets, his maiden victim being Harry Wrathall. Hunt played four more games in that year's Championship, and also appeared against MCC at Lord's in 1898, but made no real impression and did not play for Kent again thereafter.

The rest of Hunt's career was an on-off affair with Worcestershire. Only in 1908, when he played 14 matches, and 1913, when he turned out eight times, did he appear more than five times in a season, and in several years he was entirely absent. In the aforementioned 1908 season Hunt took 14 wickets at 35.64 and scored 143 runs at 11.00, in both cases his best season's aggregates.

His best bowling was 4-36 in May 1910, when he helped reduce Essex from 159/4 to 190 all out and allowed Worcestershire to chase just 84 for victory; they scraped home by one wicket despite Buckenham's 8-40. Hunt's career-best score of 40 not out came against the Philadelphians in 1908, when from 66/9 he and Albert Bird put on 63 for the last wicket.