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| Full name | Henry William Tate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 October 1849 Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 9 May 1936 (aged 86) Richmond, Surrey, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7[1] in (1.70 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm roundarm fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Frederick Tate (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1869–1886 | Hampshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FC umpired | 1 (1882) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 16 February 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Henry William Tate (4 October 1849 — 9 May 1936) was an English first-class cricketer.
The son of Thomas Turner Tate, he was born at Lyndhurst in October 1849. An all-rounder who bowled right-arm roundarm fast, Tate made his debut in first-class cricket for Hampshire against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord's in 1869, with him featuring in the return fixture at Southampton.[2] He took 13 wickets across these two matches, which included two five wicket hauls.[3] He was engaged by Richmond Cricket Club as their professional in 1874 and 1875.[1] Following a six-year gap, Tate returned to first-class cricket in 1875, when he made four appearances and took 11 wickets.[2] The following season, he made a further four first-class appearances,[2] in which he took 14 wickets and one five wicket haul against Kent at Faversham.[3][4]
In 1877, he took 18 wickets from five matches,[3] which included career-best figures of 6 for 76 against Derbyshire.[5] He bettered this in 1878 by taking 6 for 51 against Kent;[6] across the season from five matches, he took 20 wickets at an average of 12.65.[3] He also made his only career half-century with the bat during the 1878 season,[7] which came against Kent in the same match that he took his career-best bowling figures.[6] Tate did not play for Hampshire in 1879, but did return in 1880, when he made a further four appearances.[2] He took 12 wickets from four matches in 1881,[3] with a four-year gap following before he made a final first-class appearance against Kent in 1885,[2] which was to be Hampshire's last season with first-class status until 1895, following a series of poor seasons. He continued to play second-class cricket for Hampshire in 1886.[8]
Tate made 29 first-class appearances for Hampshire,[2] taking 96 wickets at an average of 18.16; he took five wickets in an innings on six occasions, and took ten-wickets in a match once.[9] Described by Arthur Haygarth in Scores and Biographies as "an average bat",[1] he scored 499 runs at a batting average of 11.08.[10] It was noted by Haygarth that he fielded at short-slip.[1] During his playing career, Tate also stood as an umpire in one first-class match between Sussex and Hampshire at Hove in 1882.[11] Tate died at Richmond on 9 May 1936, and was buried at Richmond Cemetery.[12] His brother, Frederick, was also a first-class cricketer.