Samuel James EdgarSamuel James Edgar (born 23 September 1913 in Lisburn

Lisburn

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, County Antrim

County Antrim

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; died 31 January 1937 in Lisburn was an Irish 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.

A right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace

Fast bowling

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 bowler, he played twice for the Ireland cricket team against the MCC

Marylebone Cricket Club

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 in 1934. He made his debut in a two-day match in Strabane

Strabane

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 in July, scoring 103 opening the batting in the first innings

Innings

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. His second, and final, match was a first-class

First-class cricket

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 match at Trinity College

Trinity College, Dublin

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 in Dublin the following month.