Repton School Cricket Archive
Repton Cricket Database — Altham's Team 1908
FRD'O Monro's book 'Repton Cricket (1901-1951)' contains this statement:
"This side has been sometimes cited as the best cricket team that has ever taken the field for any school,
and there is no doubt that, taken man for man, there has never been, at any rate at Repton, such a
wonderful lot of fine cricketers in one side."
"This side has been sometimes cited as the best cricket team that has ever taken the field for any school,
and there is no doubt that, taken man for man, there has never been, at any rate at Repton, such a
wonderful lot of fine cricketers in one side."
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Altham's Team
HS Altham * — Oxford University, Surrey, Hampshire, Gentlemen of England, MCC
WT Greswell — Ceylon, Somerset, Gentlemen, MCC, Free Foresters, Europeans in the East (IND)
R Sale (Snr) — Oxford University, Derbyshire
AE Cardew
CE Squire
AT Sharp — Leicestershire**
IPF Campbell — India**, Oxford University**, Surrey, Gentlemen, Indian XI (IND), Europeans (IND), Europeans in the East (IND)
JLS Vidler — Oxford University, Sussex, Free Foresters
DW Ellis
DF FitzGibbon — Ceylon, Europeans (IND) [both non first-class 1911-1912, 1910-1914]
WB Franklin † — Cambridge University, Minor Counties**, North, Gentlemen, MCC
Cardew, Squire and Ellis made a great many runs and took many wickets afterwards in good Club cricket.
FitzGibbon, a fine natural hitter, before going as a tea and rubber planter to Ceylon (where he was considered to be the best batsman),
made 269 for Hampstead vs West Herts. on a Saturday afternoon in 1910.
After the 1908 Summer Term, Sharp played for Leicestershire, Sale for Derbyshire, Greswell for Somerset, Altham for Surrey;
Vidler and Cardew were asked to play for Sussex and Somerset respectively, but were unable to accept.
