Sep Lambert

Septimus Drummond "Sep" Lambert (3 August 1876 in Dublin, Ireland – 21 April 1959 in Dublin)[1] was an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper,[1] he played 14 times for the Ireland cricket team between 1896 and 1921,[2] including seven first-class matches.[3]

Sep Lambert

Cricket information
Batting	Right-handed batsman
Bowling	n/a - wicket-keeper
International information
National side	Irish
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 7 Runs scored 184 Batting average 23.00 100s/50s 0/1 Top score 60* Balls bowled 0 Wickets - Bowling average - 5 wickets in innings - 10 wickets in match - Best bowling - Catches/stumpings 3/0
Source: Cricket Archive

Lambert was educated at Rathmines School and Wesley College in Dublin and at St John's College in Preston before qualifying as a solicitor in Dublin.

Cricket career

Sep Lambert made his debut for Ireland against I Zingari in August 1896. Never a regular in the Irish side, his international career contains several large gaps between matches, and it was three years before he played his second match for Ireland, also against I Zingari in August 1899. Another three-year gap followed,[2] before he made his first-class debut for Ireland, against London County in May 1902,[3] in what was also Ireland's first first-class match.[4] This was a rare period of consistent selection for Ireland,[2] and he played three further first-class matches again that month, against the MCC, Oxford University and Cambridge University.[3]

He played once in 1903 against London County, and twice in 1904 against South Africa and Cambridge University. He played a match against HDG Leveson-Gower's XI in 1905, before another gap in appearances, this time for eleven years, returning for a match against Scotland in July 1911.[2]

Another long gap followed, though much of this can be explained by Ireland not playing between 1915 and 1919 due to the First World War.[4] He did play three more times for Ireland though, against Scotland in 1920 and against the Irish Military and Scotland in 1921.[2]

Statistics

In all matches for Ireland, Sep Lambert scored 342 runs at an average of 20.12, with a top score of 60 not out against Oxford University in May 1902, his only half-century for Ireland[2] and also his top first-class score.[1] He took ten catches and no stumpings.[2]

Family

His parents were Kate (née Barrett) and Thomas Drummond Lambert.[5] Sep Lambert came from a cricketing family. His brother Bob was one of Ireland's finest cricketers, and his nephew Ham also played cricket for Ireland.[1]

References

1. Cricket Archive profile
2. CricketEurope Stats Zone profile
3. First-class matches played by Sep Lambert at CricketArchive
4. List of matches played by Ireland
5. Clavin, Terry (2009). "Bob (Robert James Hamilton) Lambert In Lambert, Ham (Noel Hamilton)". In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.