Joseph Rowbotham

Who was Joseph Rowbotham?

Joseph Rowbotham was an English first-class cricketer, who played six matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club, in their pre-county incarnation from 1861 and 1862, and 94 for them as a full county club from 1863 to 1876. He played for the MCC in 1856, and also appeared for Sheffield, All England Eleven, The Players, England, Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire, United North of England Eleven, North of England and Players of the North, all in first-class games. He played non first-class cricket for an All England Eleven in 1865.

Rowbotham was born in Highfield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. He was Yorkshire's captain in 1873 and 1875. In 141 first-class matches, he scored 3,694 runs at 15.92, with three centuries and a best score of 113 against Surrey. An occasional wicket-keeper, he took seventy catches and completed five stumpings. He also took 3 for 37 against Gloucestershire, in his only first-class bowling spell.

He umpired in one Test Match; England versus Australia at Manchester from 10 to 12 July 1884.

Rowbotham died in December 1899 in Morecambe, Lancashire