George Ubsdell

{{short description|English cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = George Ubsdell

| image =

| country = England

| fullname =

| nickname =

| birth_date = 4 April 1845

| birth_place = Southampton, Hampshire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1905|10|15|1845|4|4|df=yes}}

| death_place = Liverpool, Lancashire, England

| heightft = 5

| heightinch = 6{{cite book|title=Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket scores and Biographies|publisher=Longman|location=London|first=Frederick|last=Lillywhite|year=1878|page=378|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dl8IAAAAQAAJ|language=en}}

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm roundarm medium

| role = Wicket-keeper

| family =

| club1 = Hampshire

| year1 = {{nowrap|1864–1870}}

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 15

| runs1 = 170

| bat avg1 = 6.80

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 29

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = 4/13

| date = 30 December

| year = 2009

| source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22142.html Cricinfo

}}

George Ubsdell (4 April 1845 — 15 October 1905) was an English first-class cricketer and umpire.

Ubsdell was born at Southampton in April 1845. A professional cricketer, Ubsdell made his debut in first-class cricket for Hampshire against Sussex at Southampton in 1864, which was Hampshire County Cricket Club's inaugural match in first-class cricket. He played first-class cricket for Hampshire until 1870, making fifteen appearances.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6898/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by George Ubsdell|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=17 December 2022|url-access=subscription}} Playing as a wicket-keeper in the Hampshire side, he took four catches and made thirteen stumpings, an unusual statistic for a wicket-keeper in that they normally end their career with more catches than stumpings.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6898/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by George Ubsdell|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=17 December 2022|url-access=subscription}} In a match against Surrey in 1865, he made five stumpings in Surrey's second innings.George Ubsdell. Cricket. 26 October 1905. p. 17 As a batsman, he scored 170 runs at an average of 6.80, with a highest score of 29. Besides playing county cricket, Ubsdell was engaged as a club cricketer at Hampton Wick (1867 and 1869), Gore Court (1868 and 1870–71), Liverpool (1872), and Childwall (1874–76). He was additionally engaged in a coaching capacity by Marlborough College and Exeter College, Oxford. He was further described as a player by Haygarth in Scores and Biographies as "an excellent hitter to all parts of the field, especially to the off, bowls round-armed, middle-paced, and is also a capital wicket-keeper". Following the end of his first-class career, he spent 12 years as a groundsman at Liverpool Cricket Club's Aigburth Ground.{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/227833.html|title=Wisden - Obituaries in 1905|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|accessdate=17 December 2022}} Ubsdell later stood as an umpire in a first-class match between Liverpool and District and the touring Australians in 1882.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6898/Umpire_in_First-Class_Matches.html|title=George Ubsdell as Umpire in First-Class Matches|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=17 December 2022|url-access=subscription}} Ubsdell died at the Palatine Hotel in Garston, Liverpool in October 1905.