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| Full name | Sylvester Murley Sturgeon | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 August 1886 Stoke Newington, London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 1 May 1930(1930-05-01) (aged 43) Chester, Cheshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1922–1923 | Scotland | ||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricinfo, 5 November 2022 | |||||||||||||||
Sylvester Murley Sturgeon (12 August 1886 — 1 May 1930) was an English first-class cricketer of Scottish-descent.
Sturgeon was born at Stoke Newington in August 1886. A club cricketer for Carlton, he made two appearances in first-class cricket for Scotland against Surrey at The Oval on Scotland's 1922 tour of England, and against Wales at Perth in 1923. Playing as a wicket-keeper in the Scottish side, the took five catches and made a single stumping. Sturgeon later became commercial traveller based in Redland, Bristol. He was summoned before Nailsworth Police Court in October 1929, having been found drunk while in charge of a motor vehicle, having reversed his car through a shop window; he was subsequently fined £3 plus £2 costs, and banned from driving for 12 months. Sturgeon died the following year, in May 1930 at the Boston Hotel in Chester.
References
- "International Caps". www.carltoncc.co.uk. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
- "First-Class Matches played by Sylvester Sturgeon". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
- "First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Sylvester Sturgeon". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
- Redland Man Who Took Veronal And Three Whiskies. Western Daily Press. 18 October 1929. p. 2
- Re Sylvester Murley Sturgeon. Western Daily Press. 12 September 1935. p. 6