Ernest Shorrocks

{{Short description|English cricketer (1875–1916)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Ernest Shorrocks

| fullname = Ernest Shorrocks

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1875|3|12|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Middleton, Lancashire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1916|7|20|1875|3|12|df=yes}}

| death_place = Thiepval, Somme, France

| club1 = Somerset

| year1 = 1905

| columns = 1

| column1 = FC

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 16

| bat avg1 = 16.00

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| top score1 = 16*

| deliveries1 = 120

| wickets1 = 2

| bowl avg1 = 30.00

| fivefor1 = 0

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 2/60

| catches/stumpings1 = 0/–

| date = 22 December 2015

| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3813/3813.html CricketArchive

}}

Ernest Shorrocks (12 March 1875 – 20 July 1916) was an English cricketer who played in one first-class cricket match for Somerset in the 1905 season.

A professional who batted in the lower order and bowled 20 overs in his one match, Shorrocks was picked for the Somerset match against Lancashire at Taunton. He took the wickets of Reggie Spooner and James Hallows for 60 runs as Lancashire made 401 on the first day, then made 0 and an unbeaten 16 as Somerset were beaten by an innings.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/6/6751.html | title = Somerset v Lancashire |date = 19 June 1905 |publisher = CricketArchive | accessdate =10 November 2008}} He was one of three Somerset debutants in the match; for one of the others, Alfred Trestrail, this was also the only first-class match. The third, John Harcombe, played six further matches for Somerset up to 1919.

Shorrocks was a serjeant in the 20th battalion of the Royal Fusiliers and died in the First World War in the fighting on the Somme.{{cite web|url=https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/cricketers-who-died-in-world-war-1-final-part-168151 |title=Cricketers who died in World War 1 – Part 5 of 5 |work=Cricket Country |date=8 August 2014 |accessdate=28 November 2018}} He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.{{cite web | url = http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1552642 | title = Shorrocks, Ernest| publisher = Commonwealth War Graves Commission | accessdate =20 March 2011}}