Cecil Currie

Cecil Edmund Currie (4 April 1861 – 2 January 1937) was an English cricketer, who played for Cambridge University and Hampshire. Outside cricket, he was a solicitor at Freshfields & Leece in London.

Cecil Currie

Personal information
Full name	Cecil Edmund Currie
Born	4 April 1861 Brightwalton, Berkshire, England
Died	2 January 1937 (aged 75) Staines, Middlesex, England
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm slow
Relations	Sir Frederick Larkins Currie, 2nd Baronet (Father), Frederick Currie (Cousin), Fendall Currie (Uncle), Robert Currie (Uncle), William Currie (Uncle)
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1883	Cambridge University
1881–1885	Hampshire
Career statistics
Competition FC Matches 20 Runs scored 300 Batting average 12.00 100s/50s –/– Top score 32 Balls bowled 3,318 Wickets 64 Bowling average 22.28 5 wickets in innings 2 10 wickets in match 1 Best bowling 8/57 Catches/stumpings 9/–
Source: Cricinfo, 6 February 2010

He died at Staines, Middlesex on 2 January 1937.

Family and early life

Currie was born at Bright Waltham, Berkshire, the last of seven children of the Reverend Sir Frederick Larkins Currie, 2nd Baronet and Eliza Reeve née Rackham, and was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1]

On 6 February 1894 he married Louisa Fanny née Drury, daughter of Major-General George Drury, Royal Marines Light Infantry,[2] and Jessie née Pigou[3]

Cricketing background

Currie was a right-handed batsman and right-arm spin bowler.

He made his first-class debut for Hampshire against Sussex in 1881. In Currie's only match of 1882 against Somerset, he took his maiden five wicket haul with figures of 8/57 in Somerset's first innings. He took two further wickets in Somerset's second innings, giving him match figures of 10/82.

In 1883 he made his debut for Cambridge University against CI Thornton's England XI. Currie's second and final first-class match for the University came against Yorkshire in the same season.

Currie continued to represent Hampshire after this, playing sixteen first-class matches for the club in all, with his final first-class match for the county coming against Kent in the 1885 season, which was Hampshire's final season with first-class status until the 1895 County Championship. In Curries's sixteen matches for the county he took 53 wickets at a bowling average of 21.87, with best figures of 8/57. Currie made two five wicket hauls and took ten wickets in a match once.

In 1888 and 1890 Currie played two first-class matches for Oxford and Cambridge Universities Past and Present, both against the touring Australians. Currie's final first-class wicket was that of Jack Barrett.

In Currie's overall first-class career he scored 300 runs at a batting average of 12.00, with a high score of 12. With the ball Debnam took 64 wickets at a bowling average of 22.28, with best figures of 8/57. In the field Currie took 9 catches.

Currie's father played cricket for Cambridge University in 1845. His cousin Frederick Currie (Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)) and three uncles, Fendall Currie (Gentlemen of Kent), Robert Currie (Gentlemen of Surrey and Sussex) and William Currie (Gentlemen of Surrey and Sussex), all played first-class cricket.

References

1. "Currie, Cecil Edmund (CRY880CE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
2. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, section Currie
3. Portrait of Mrs Jessie Drury.

External links

• Cecil Currie at Cricinfo
• Cecil Currie at CricketArchive
• Matches and detailed statistics for Cecil Currie