Edward Ward (cricketer), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British cricketer
Date of Birth: 16-Jul-1847
Date of Death: 25-Mar-1940
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Edward Ward (cricketer)
- Edward Ewer Ward (16 July 1847 – 25 March 1940), born Edward Ewer Harrison, was an English clergyman and a cricketer who played in 11 first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1868 and 1871.
- He was born at Timworth, Suffolk and died at Gorleston, Norfolk.
- He changed his name from "Harrison" to "Ward" in August 1868.Ward was educated privately at Bury St Edmunds and at Jesus College, Cambridge.
- As a cricketer, he was a right-handed tail-end batsman and a left-arm bowler: sources disagree about whether he was a fast bowler or a medium-paced one, but agree that he bowled in the round-arm style.
- He played in three matches for Cambridge University in 1868 as "E.
- E.
- Harrison" without making much impact, and was then not picked for any first-team games at all in 1869.
- He returned to the university team in 1870 and took seven wickets in his first game, against the MCC.
- That led to his selection for the 1870 University Match against Oxford University, a game that has been widely known as "Cobden's Match" through the feat of the Cambridge bowler Frank Cobden, who took the last three Oxford wickets in three balls – a hat-trick – to win the game for Cambridge by just two runs.
- Ward was just as influential in the Cambridge victory, his six wickets for 29 in the Oxford second innings, in 32 four-ball overs, being the best bowling performance of his first-class cricket career.
- He returned to the Cambridge side in 1871, but was less effective, and the University Match of that year, in which he failed to take any wickets, was his last first-class match.
- He later played minor cricket for Suffolk County Cricket Club.Ward graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1872 and in the same year he was ordained as a Church of England deacon, becoming a priest two years later.
- He had a highly itinerant clerical career, serving parishes in Sussex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Northumberland, Yorkshire and Staffordshire, retiring in 1931.
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