Arthur James Ricketts played first-class

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 for Somerset

Somerset County Cricket Club

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 in one match in 1936. He was born at Farmborough

Farmborough

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, Somerset

Somerset

The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...

 and died in Somerset too, though the exact date and place of his death is not known.

Ricketts had one of the briefest of all first-class cricket careers. He was picked, alongside Jack White

Jack White (cricketer)

John Cornish White, known as "Farmer" or "Jack", was an English cricketer who played for Somerset and England. White was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1929...

 and Horace Hazell

Horace Hazell

Horace Leslie Hazell was a cricketer who played for Somerset County Cricket Club in English first-class cricket....

, as a third slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler for Somerset's match against Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

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 at Taunton; in a rain-ruined game, he did not bowl in Surrey's innings, and when rain finished the match at close of play on the second day with Somerset at 38 for eight, he had not batted. He was never given a second chance.