Charles Fiddian-Green, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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English cricketer
Date of Birth: 22-Dec-1898
Date of Death: 05-Sep-1976
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Charles Fiddian-Green
- Charles Anderson Fiddian Fiddian-Green (22 December 1898 – 5 September 1976) was an English cricketer: an opening batsman who played 107 first-class matches between the wars, playing county cricket for both Warwickshire and Worcestershire, as well as university cricket for Cambridge University. Fiddian-Green first played in June 1920 against Cambridge University.
- He was by this time a student at Jesus College, having gone there at the age of 21 because of the First World War, but in this match he played for Warwickshire.
- He had a quiet game, scoring 1 and 23 not out, taking one catch and bowling a single over.
- He played another 14 times for the county that season, although only rarely did he catch the eye: he made 53* (albeit out of 603/9 declared) against Worcestershire in early August, and in other games took two wickets: those of Lancashire's Robert Boddington and Middlesex's future Test all-rounder Nigel Haig. In 1921 Fiddian-Green had a much better season for both Cambridge and Warwickshire, passing 1000 first-class runs for the first of two occasions (the other being the following year); his aggregate of 1079 was the best of his career.
- He won his blue, scoring 17 in his only visit to the crease as Cambridge beat Oxford by an innings.
- He passed fifty eight times in his 38 innings, although he never managed to go on to three figures; his highest score of the season was the 95 he hit for Cambridge against Warwickshire in June. 1922 saw him gain a second blue – and again Cambridge won by an innings – but the match was perhaps more remarkable for the manner of Fiddian-Green's dismissal.
- He was bowled for 23 by Thomas Raikes by a ball which was said to have pitched so wide as to be almost off the mown area of the pitch.
- He enjoyed excellent form with the bat for much of the season, averaging 42.28 in all first-class cricket and 49.21 for Cambridge alone.
- In one purple patch in mid-season, he scored 83, 103, 113 and 120 in successive innings; this last, against HDG Leveson-Gower's XI, remained the highest score of his career.
- He was also selected to represent the Gentlemen against the Players at Lord's, where he made 27 and 1. Fiddian-Green then became a master, and head of cricket, at Malvern College, and played no first-class cricket in 1923.
- However, for the following few years he did turn out for Warwickshire a few times a season during the school holidays, usually scoring good runs.
- There was then another gap until 1931, when he appeared for Worcestershire and scored 108 on debut against Essex.
- He kept wicket on a couple of occasions, and stumped Arthur Pothecary of Hampshire in August 1933. His final first-class appearance came against his old university in late June 1934, when he made 5 and 45.
- Outside cricket, Fiddian-Green represented Cambridge University at both hockey and golf.
- He died in Malvern, Worcestershire, at the age of 77.
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