Enoch Storer
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Enoch Storer 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...

er who played first class cricket for Lancashire
Lancashire County Cricket Club
Lancashire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1864 as a successor to Manchester Cricket Club and has played at Old Trafford since then...

 between 1865 and 1878.

Storer was born at Clay Cross
Clay Cross
Clay Cross is a former mining town and civil parish in the North East Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England, about six miles south of Chesterfield. It is directly on the A61, the former Roman road Ryknield Street...

, Derbyshire. He became a cricket professional at Ashton-under-Lyne in 1861. In 1863 he played for Boughton and in 1864 spent a year at Exeter College, Oxford
Exeter College, Oxford
Exeter College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the fourth oldest college of the University. The main entrance is on the east side of Turl Street...

. At the end of the 1864 season he moved on the Longsight Club at Manchester. He made his debut for Lancashire in the club's second first-class match which was against Middlesex in August 1865. He accompanied three amateurs from Longsight - Edwin Bousfield, Lewis Moorsom and R.Slater He scored 6 not out and 23, and took one wicket for 29 runs. In 1866 he was playing for Kendal and Players of Lancashire. He played two matches for Lancashire in 1867 and one in 1868. In 1869 he umpired two first class Lancashire matches and was with the Manchester Club. From 1870 to 1875 he was at Bury. In 1877 he was with the Broughton Club at Manchester and started umpiring Lancashire matches again at Old Trafford. He returned to the Manchester Club in 1878 and in addition to umpiring, he played two matches for Lancashire in the season. In his last match he achieved his best bowling performance against his native county, Derbyshire
Derbyshire County Cricket Club
Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...

 when he took five wickets for 12 runs in the first innings and three for 25 in the second innings.

Storer was a left-hand batsman and played eleven innings in six first class matches with an average of 7.66 and a top score of 23. He was a right-arm round arm fast bowler and took 15 wickets at an average of 16.33 and a best performance of 5 for 12. He usually fielded at slip where he took two catches.

Storer died at Hulme
Hulme
Hulme is an inner city area and electoral ward of Manchester, England. Located immediately south of Manchester city centre, it is an area with significant industrial heritage....

, Lancashire at the age of 42 and a charity match was played on behalf of his wife and children on 30th April 1881.
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