Brian Robert Edrich was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent and Glamorgan between 1947 and 1956.
11 Facts About Brian Edrich
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Brian Edrich was a member of the Edrich cricketing family from Norfolk.
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Brian Edrich grew up on the family farm near Lingwood and in East Yorkshire when the family moved north in 1932, returning to live near Heacham.
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Brian Edrich played cricket for Heacham, playing for the First XI by 1938, aged 16.
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Brian Edrich was playing for an Edrich family team in 1938 when he was recommended as a promising youngster to Kent County Cricket Club who offered him a contract for the 1939 season without seeing him play.
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The Second World War intervened and Brian Edrich was not able to make his first-class cricket debut until the 1947 season.
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Brian Edrich broke into the Kent First XI as a regular in 1949, scoring 893 runs and taking 37 wickets, including both his career high score and best bowling figures.
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Brian Edrich was awarded his county cap by Kent in 1949 and his most prolific season was 1951 in which he passed 1,000 runs for the only time in his career, finishing with 1,267, including two centuries, and took 49 wickets.
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Brian Edrich joined Glamorgan for three seasons as a player, becoming an assistant coach in 1956 and playing in the Second XI to help develop young players.
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Brian Edrich made one appearance for the Minor Counties representative team against the touring Pakistanis in 1967, his final first-class match.
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Brian Edrich died at Padstow in Cornwall in 2009 aged 86.