Richard Francis
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Richard Francis was a famous English cricket
er who played for the Hambledon Club
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Francis is known to have been a Surrey man by birth and he had played for Surrey
teams before moving to Hampshire. He made 47 known first-class appearances from 1773 until 1793.
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 for the Hambledon Club
Hambledon Club
The Hambledon Club was a social club that is famous for its organisation of 18th century cricket matches. By the late 1770s it was the foremost cricket club in England.-Foundation:...
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Francis is known to have been a Surrey man by birth and he had played for Surrey
Surrey county cricket teams
Surrey county cricket teams have been traced back to the 17th century but the county's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that. The first definite mention of cricket anywhere in the world is dated c.1550 in Guildford.-17th century:...
teams before moving to Hampshire. He made 47 known first-class appearances from 1773 until 1793.