Harry Griffin

Who was Harry Griffin?

Harry Griffin played first-class cricket for Somerset in 1898 and 1899. He was born at Glastonbury, Somerset and died at Bristol.

Griffin played for Somerset as a left-handed middle-order batsman and a slow left-arm spin bowler. In his one match in 1898, he did not bowl, but in the first of three games in 1899, he was the eighth bowler used as Gloucestershire replied to a Somerset first innings score of 476 with an opening stand of 148; Griffin, however, then took six wickets for 40 runs in 19 five-ball overs, and a further three when Gloucestershire followed on, to finish with match figures of nine for 107. Despite this success, Griffin, as a professional, was unable to secure a regular place in cash-strapped Somerset's team, and played only two further matches. In the second of these, against Yorkshire, he took the wickets of David Denton, Rockley Wilson, Lord Hawke and Schofield Haigh and made his highest first-class score of 23. But he did not appear in first-class cricket again.