Full name Edward Stanley Baker Name Edward Baker | Batting style Right-handed | |
Died 15 March 1992(1992-03-15) (aged 81)Great Dunmow, Essex, England | ||
Edward Stanley Baker (9 November 1910 – 15 March 1992) was an English cricketer: a wicket-keeper who played 32 first-class matches for Worcestershire in the 1930s.
Baker attended, and played for, King Edward's School in Birmingham. He made his first-class debut for Worcestershire against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham in 1933, taking two catches and scoring 0 and 5. He appeared thrice more that summer, but took only one more catch and scored just 1 and 1 in his two remaining innings.
In 1934 Baker was Worcestershire's regular wicket-keeper, a deliberate decision made by the county to allow Bernard Quaife to play as a specialist batsman. Baker played 28 times that summer, and ended the year with 38 dismissals (33 caught; five stumped), although in any single match he never claimed more than the four dismissals (all caught) he managed against Somerset in June.
Baker played no first-class cricket after the 1934 season.