Edward Phillip Solbé was an English 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...

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Born in Bromley

Bromley

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, Solbé was a prominent batsman at schoolboy level during World War I

World War I

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, and subsequently made fifteen appearances in first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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 for Kent County Cricket Club

Kent County Cricket Club

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. Often coming in down the order

Batting order (cricket)

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, Solbé scored two half-centuries for Kent—the first against Sussex

Sussex County Cricket Club

Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Sussex. The club was founded as a successor to Brighton Cricket Club which was a representative of the county of Sussex as a...

 in 1921, with the second coming the following season against Worcestershire

Worcestershire County Cricket Club

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The son of Frank Solbé

Frank Solbé

Frank de Lisle Solbé was an English international hockey player, who also played cricket.Born in Chefoo, China, Solbé was educated at Dulwich College, where he played for the school's cricket eleven in 1887 and 1888...

, who played international hockey for England, Edward died in Nottingham

Nottingham

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in 1961, aged 59.

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