Fred Welman

Frederic Tristram Welman was an English amateur cricketer who played 65 firstclass matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club, Somerset and Middlesex. He was a wicketkeeper who also played as a lowerorder batsman. He did not pass 50 runs in any firstclass innings during his career.

Welman was bornFebruary 1849 at Norton Manor in Norton Fitzwarren, just outside Taunton, the son of Charles Noel Welman, a Justice of the peace for Somerset. He was educated at Oxford University, but was not rated as good enough to feature in the universitys cricket side. His first noted cricket appearance was for Surrey Club against Uppingham School, a twoday match played at The Oval in London. During the 1870s, he appeared for both the Gentlemen of Devon, and the Gentlemen of Somerset a few times each year. When the two sides faced he each other, he appeared for the Somerset side. His firstclass debut came in 1874, when he appeared for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Cambridge University. In a nine wicket loss for the MCC, he was dismissed for a duck in the first innings, and three runs in the second. He did not play another firstclass match for almost five years, when he faced Oxford University for the MCC, during which he once again was dismissed without scoring in the fir

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