James Burns (cricketer)

{{short description|English cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = James Burns

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1866|6|20|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Liverpool, Lancashire, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1957|9|11|1866|6|20|df=yes}}

| death_place = Hampstead, London, England

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| batting = Right-handed

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| club1 = Essex

| year1 = 1890–1896

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| columns = 1

| column1 = FC

| matches1 = 41

| runs1 = 1134

| bat avg1 = 17.18

| 100s/50s1 = 1/4

| top score1 = 114

| deliveries1 = 894

| wickets1 = 15

| bowl avg1 = 30.66

| fivefor1 = 1

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 6/41

| catches/stumpings1 = 15/0

| date = 27 July 2013

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/9303.html Cricinfo

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James Burns (20 June 1866 – 11 September 1957) was an English cricketer. He played for Essex between 1890 and 1896 as a right-handed middle order batter and as an occasional left-arm slow bowler, and for Marylebone Cricket Club in occasional matches up to 1901.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/9303.html |title= James Burns |accessdate=27 July 2013 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}} He was also a football player who played for West Bromwich Albion and Notts County.{{Cite book | author1 = Lemmon, David | author2 = Marshall, Mike | title = Essex County Cricket Club: The Official History | edition = 1987 | publisher = Kingswood Press (Heinemann) | ISBN = 0 434 98111 7 | page = 63}}

Burns and George Higgins both scored centuries in Essex's first-ever County Championship fixture, the match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston in May 1895; Burns scored 114 and Higgins 118, and together they put on 205 for the fourth wicket.{{Cite book | title = Wisden Cricketers' Almanack | edition = 1896 | publisher = Wisden | chapter = Warwickshire Matches | page = 116 }} Neither scored any further centuries in first-class cricket.