Andrew Ernest Stoddart was an English sportsman who played international cricket for England, and rugby union for England and the British Isles.
16 Facts About Andrew Stoddart
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Andrew Stoddart was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1893.
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Andrew Stoddart has the unique distinction in captaining England in three distinct sports; cricket, rugby union and Australian rules football.
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Andrew Stoddart was a flamboyant right-handed batsman and a right arm medium pace bowler.
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Andrew Stoddart played 16 Test matches captaining England in eight games of which he won three, lost four and drew one.
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Andrew Stoddart was the first England captain to ask Australia to bat first, and the first to declare a Test innings closed.
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Andrew Stoddart's plans changed when he took the record for the highest ever score in cricket at the time with an innings of 485 for Hampstead against Stoics on 4 August 1886.
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Andrew Stoddart was seventh out, having batted six hours and ten minutes and clubbed one eight, three fives, and 64 fours.
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Andrew Stoddart was a man with a great zest for life in his younger days.
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Andrew Stoddart had danced then played cards until dawn before the Stoics game, batted almost through Hampstead's innings of 813, then played tennis, went to the theatre and turned in at 3 am His next innings was against Kent when he posted his maiden first-class century in scoring 116.
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Andrew Stoddart played ten rugby union internationals for England, and captained England four times.
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Andrew Stoddart took over the captaincy early in the tour when Robert L Seddon drowned in a sculling accident.
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In 1890, Andrew Stoddart became a founding member of the Barbarian FC, the invitational rugby club.
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Andrew Stoddart did not return, and her husband divorced her on grounds of desertion in 1903.
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Andrew Stoddart worked on the London Stock Exchange, then became secretary of Queen's Club.
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Andrew Stoddart's remains lie in an unmarked grave in Radford, Coventry.