| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Ernest Edwin Coombs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 December 1875 Croydon, Surrey, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 3 April 1960 (aged 84) Hove, Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1901/02–1918/19 | Europeans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 5 June 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ernest Edwin Coombs OBE (17 December 1875 — 3 April 1960) was an English cricketer.
Coombs was born at Croydon in December 1875. He would spend much of his adult life in British India, where he played first-class cricket in the Bombay Presidency matches for the Europeans cricket team on six occasions between August 1901 and September 1918.[1] Playing as a bowler, he took 19 wickets in his six matches an average of 14.73.[2] He took the majority of his wickets in two matches; against the Parsees in 1903 he took five wickets,[3] while against the same opposition in 1904 he took 11 wickets.[4] Coombs was a part–time officer in the Indian Defence Force during the First World War, holding the rank of lieutenant in January 1919.[5] By 1925, he was employed as a Superintendent of Government Printing and Stationery at Bombay. In recognition of his services, Coombs was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1925 Birthday Honours.[6] He later retired to England, where he died at Hove in April 1960.