George Collins (cricketer, born 1851)

George Collins (29 October 1851 – 11 March 1905) was an English cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club. He was born in Cobham in Kent.[1][2]

Collins made his first-class cricket debut for WG Grace's XI against Kent at the Bat and Ball Ground in Gravesend in 1873. He went on to play 13 times for Kent between 1874 and 1882.[3]

Collins' brother Christopher and father Benjamin both played for Kent. His nephew, also named George, made over 200 appearances for the county either side of World War I.[4] He died at Tunbridge Wells in 1905 aged 53.[1]

References
  1. George Collins, CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  2. Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 117–118. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
  3. George Collins, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  4. Collins, George C, Obituaries in 1949, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1950. Retrieved 2017-04-17.


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