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Batting style
  
Right-handed

1885-1892
  

Name
  
Arthur Croome

Role
  
Cricket Player

Born
  
21 February 1866 (
1866-02-21
)

Died
  
September 11, 1930, Taplow, United Kingdom

Arthur Capel Molyneux Croome (21 February 1866 – 11 September 1930) was an English cricketer. He was educated at Wellington College and Magdalen College, Oxford. He played cricket for Gloucestershire between 1885 and 1892. He became a schoolteacher and taught at Radley College 1889–1910.

Croome was also a hurdler and ran for Oxford for four years. He was one of the pioneers of the "straight-lead-leg" hurdling technique. While teaching at Radley he took up golf and was one of the founders of the Oxford and Cambridge Golfing Society. He wrote weekly articles on golf for the Evening Standard and the Morning Post. After leaving Radley he moved to London and wrote on cricket for The Times.

His son Victor played cricket for the Royal Air Force.

References

Arthur Croome Wikipedia


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