Billy Bates
Cricket Player
1855 – 1900
Who was Billy Bates?
Willie Bates, known as Billy was an English all-round cricketer. Excellent with both bat and ball, Bates scored over 10,000 first-class runs, took more than 870 wickets and was always reliable in the field. A snappy dresser, Bates was also known as "The Duke".
Born to a humble family in Lascelles Hall, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Bates became a professional cricketer for Rochdale in 1873 and made his first-class debut for Yorkshire four years later, taking four for 69 in Middlesex's first innings to begin a ten-year career in the first-class game. He played fifteen Test matches for England between 1881โ82 and 1886โ87, all of them in Australia.
At the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1882โ83, Bates excelled by scoring 55 in England's only innings before taking 7 for 28 to force Australia to follow on. He then claimed 7 for 74 in the second innings to help his team to the first-ever innings victory in Test cricket. Bates set several individual records in this game as his hat-trick was the first for England in Test cricket, and his return of 7 for 28, and his match tally of 14 wickets, were then the best-ever by a Test match bowler.
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- Born
- Nov 19, 1855
Huddersfield - Children
- Nationality
- England
- Died
- Jan 8, 1900
Lepton, West Yorkshire
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on July 23, 2013
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