David Eastwood (cricketer)
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David Eastwood was an English
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 first-class cricket
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er, who played twenty nine matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club
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 between 1870 and 1877.

Born in Lascelles Hall, Huddersfield
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, Yorkshire
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, England
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, Eastwood was a right slow round arm bowler who took twenty catches and scored 807 first-class runs, with a top score of 68, at an average of 13.22. His bowling netted 36 wickets at an average of 19.83, with best figures of 6 for 69. His first-class career lasted from 1870 to 1879.

Eastwood died in May 1903, in Sheepridge
Sheepridge
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, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, aged 55.

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