Clement Mitchell

{{Short description|English sportsman (1862–1937)}}

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| birth_place = Cambridge, England

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| death_place = Aldrington, Hove, England

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| position = Centre-forward

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Clement Mitchell (20 February 1862 – 6 October 1937) was an English sportsman who represented the England national football team and played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club.

Mitchell was born at Cambridge in 1862 and was educated at Felsted School.[http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/17613.html Clement Mitchell], CricInfo. Retrieved 19 December 2018.[http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228185.html Mitchell, Mr Clement], Obituaries in 1937, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1938. Retrieved 19 December 2018. He was the first Englishman to score a hat-trick against Wales in an international, with goals in the 16th, 70th and 90th minutes of their 1883 clash at Kennington Oval. A centre-forward, he also scored a goal in a loss to Scotland a month later and in a 1–1 draw with Wales at the 1885 British Home Championship.{{cite web|url=http://www.englandfc.com/Profiles/php/PlayerProfileByName.php?id=674|title=England Player Profile: Clement Mitchell|publisher=England F.C.|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202173448/http://www.englandfc.com/Profiles/php/PlayerProfileByName.php?id=674|archivedate=2 December 2008}}

Mitchell had been a dominant batsman at school and played club cricket for Crystal Palace Cricket Club. In club cricket he scored double centuries and between 1890 and 1892 made eight first-class cricket appearances as a left-handed batsman for Kent.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31498/31498.html Clement Mitchell], CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 December 2018. He had less success at county cricket level, scoring 126 runs at a batting average of less than 10 runs per innings.Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 389–390. ([https://archive.acscricket.com/books/Kent_Cricketers_A_to_Z_Part_One_Revised_Expanded.pdf Available online] at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 21 December 2020.)

Mitchell died at Aldrington in Sussex in 1937 aged 75.