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Francis Baines (cricketer)

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Francis Edmund Baines (18 June 1864 – 17 November 1948)[1] was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played in the drawn 1888 Roses match for Yorkshire against Lancashire, played at Bramall Lane, Sheffield. A right-handed batsman and right arm medium-fast bowler, Baines was bowled for a duck by Napier, and not called upon to bowl. This was his only first-class game.[1]

Baines was born in Ecclesall, Sheffield, and died in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, at the age of 84.

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  1. ^ a b Warner, David (2011). The Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook (113th ed.). Ilkley, Yorkshire: Great Northern Books. p. 363. ISBN 978-1-905080-85-4.