Frank Mycroft
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Full name | Frank Mycroft | ||||||||||||||
Born | (1873-06-30)30 June 1873 Shirland, Derbyshire, England | ||||||||||||||
Died | 26 September 1900(1900-09-26) (aged 27) Leicester, England | ||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||
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1894–1895 | Derbyshire | ||||||||||||||
FC debut | 9 July 1894 Derbyshire v Yorkshire | ||||||||||||||
Last FC | 8 July 1895 Derbyshire v Yorkshire | ||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, January 2012 |
Frank Mycroft (30 June 1873 – 26 September 1900) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire County Cricket Club between 1894 and 1895.
Mycroft was born in Shirland Toadhole Furnace, Derbyshire, the son of Matthew Mycroft, a farmer of 70 acres (280,000 m2), and his wife Eliza. Mycroft started playing for Derbyshire in the 1893 season before they were included in the County Championship. He was a wicket-keeper for the club and played in two first-class matches both against Yorkshire in the 1894 and 1895 seasons, standing in for the regular wicket-keeper William Storer. Mycroft was a left-handed batsman who was last man in his matches.
Mycroft died in 1900 in Leicester, at the age of 27.