Edwin Bennett

Who was Edwin Bennett?

Edwin Howard Bennett was an English cricketer, who played four first-class matches. He was born in Shifnal, Shropshire, and he died at the age of just 35 in East Worthing, Sussex.

Three of Bennett's games were for Worcestershire in 1925, while the other came for the Civil Service in 1927. In the latter game against the touring New Zealanders, themselves making their first tour of England, he made 73 and 60. He brought off only one catch in first-class cricket, to dismiss Bob Wyatt in the derby against Warwickshire.

Before his brief first-class career, Bennett played a number of games in the Minor Counties Championship for Staffordshire; he scored 97 for them against Kent Second XI in 1921. He also played club cricket for Wolverhampton, and in a single-innings game against Shrewsbury School in 1922 hit 146 opening the batting; the match was eventually drawn with Shrewsbury nine wickets down.