Fred Beattie
Cricket Player
1909 –
Who is Fred Beattie?
Fred Demetrius Beattie was an English cricketer. Beattie was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Ashton upon Mersey, Cheshire and attended Rossall Preparatory School in 1919 before joining the main Rossall School, where he was in Pelican House. He left Rossall in 1927 after playing in the cricket eleven in his final two years.
Beattie played second XI cricket for Lancashire in the Minor Counties Championship from 1928, which entitled him to play for the combined Minor Counties cricket team. He made his first-class debut for the Minor Counties against Lancashire at Old Trafford in 1930. His first-class debut for Lancashire came the 1932 County Championship against Derbyshire. He made four further first-class appearances for the county in 1932, the last of which came against Somerset. In his five first-class matches in that season, he scored 120 runs at an average of 15.00, with a high score of 36. In 1933, he made a final first-class appearance, for the Minor Counties against Oxford University at the University Parks.
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