Charles Worsley (cricketer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 30-May-1902
Place of Birth: Evenley, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 02-Dec-1990
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Charles Worsley (cricketer)
- Charles Edward Austen Worsley (30 May 1902 – 2 December 1990) was an English cricketer.
- Worsley was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Evenley Vicarage, Northamptonshire and baptised 29 June 1902, the son of the Rev.
- Edward Worsley (died 16 April 1923), Vicar of Evenley, 1872-1923, and Honorary Canon of Peterborough, by Ethel Adela (died 28 June 1913), the youngest daughter of Edward Knight of Chawton House, Chawton, Hampshire.
- He was educated at Radley College, 1915-1921. He worked for Sir Edward Penton and Company, boot manufacturers, 1921–24, a tea planter in Ceylon, 1924, silver fox farmer in Devon, 1934, and a tea planter at Ceylon again, 1939-52. Worsley made two first-class appearances for Northamptonshire in the 1921 County Championship against Sussex and Warwickshire.
- In the match against Sussex at the County Ground, Northampton, Worsely scored 5 runs Northamptonshire's first-innings, before being dismissed by Vallance Jupp.
- In their second-innings he was dismissed for 23 by the same bowler.
- The match ended in a draw.
- In the match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston, he was dismissed for 4 runs in Northamptonshire's first-innings by Willie Quaife, while in their second-innings he scored 2 runs, before being dismissed by Harry Howell.
- Warwickshire won the match by 82 runs.He married 1939, Doris Mary, daughter of A.
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- Whitechurch.
- He died at Cove, Devon on 2 December 1990.
- His brother, Arthur, also played first-class cricket.
- He was also related through his mother to the Knight cricketing family, a large number of whom played first-class cricket.
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