Carst Posthuma
Carst Posthuma (11 January 1868 – 21 December 1939) was a Dutch cricket player of the late 19th/early 20th century. He was a left-handed batsman and left-arm fast bowler.
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| Full name | Carst Jan Posthuma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 January 1868 Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 21 December 1939 (aged 71) Near Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-arm fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1903 | London County | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 17 January 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
He played 72 times for the Dutch national team up to 1928, when he would have been sixty years old. He holds the Dutch record for most wickets in a career, taking 2338 wickets at an average of 8.67 throughout his playing career. He was also the first Dutchman to take 100 wickets in a season in 1900, and the first to score a century in domestic cricket in 1894.
Perhaps the highest profile time of his career came in 1903 when he played five first-class games for W. G. Grace's London County Cricket Club. In his five matches, he took 23 wickets at an average of 15.04, with best bowling figures of 7/68 coming against Leicestershire.
References
Media related to Carst Posthuma at Wikimedia Commons- Cricinfo profile
- Cricket Archive profile