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| Full name | Francis Henry Bateman-Champain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 June 1877 Richmond Hill, Surrey, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 29 December 1942 (aged 65) Tiverton, Devon, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm slow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1895–1914 | Gloucestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1897–1900 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 8 August 1895 Gloucestershire v Middlesex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 31 August 1914 Gloucestershire v Surrey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 1 May 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Francis Henry Bateman-Champain (17 June 1877 – 29 December 1942) was an English cricketer playing primarily for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club and Oxford University Cricket Club between 1895 and 1914.[1] A right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm slow bowler, he came from a cricketing family: his brothers John, Claude and Hugh all played first-class cricket. His uncles Fendall, Frederick, Robert and William Currie also played.[2] Francis played 114 matches in his career, scoring 4,677 runs at a batting average of 24.61. over 3,300 of these were scored for Gloucestershire, for whom he made four of his five centuries.[3] Born in Richmond Hill, Surrey, he died in Tiverton, Devon.[1]