Samuel Powell (cricketer)

Samuel Powell
Personal information
Full name
Samuel Norman Powell
Bornafter 18 March 1878
Chelsea, Middlesex, England
Died18 March 1931 (aged 53)
at sea aboard the SS Margha, off the coast of Jersey
BattingUnknown
BowlingUnknown
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1905/06–1907/08Europeans
Umpiring information
FC umpired1 (1907)
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 3
Runs scored 49
Batting average 9.80
100s/50s –/–
Top score 32
Balls bowled 120
Wickets 1
Bowling average 64.00
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling 1/60
Catches/stumpings 1/–
Source: Cricinfo, 12 November 2023

Samuel Norman Powell (after March 1878 – 18 March 1931) was an English first-class cricketer and umpire.

Powell was born in 1878 at Chelsea. He was employed in British India in a paper manufacturing business in Calcutta.[1] He played first-class cricket in India for the Europeans cricket team, making his debut against the Parsees in the 1905–06 Bombay Presidency Match. Two further appearances followed against the same opposition in the 1907–08 Bombay Triangular and Bombay Presidency matches.[2] In his three first-class matches, he scored 49 runs with a highest score of 32,[3] in addition to taking a single wicket.[4] He also stood as umpire in a first-class fixture between the Europeans and the Hindus in the 1906–07 Bombay Presidency Match.[5] In June 1911, he undertook divorce proceedings against his wife, for her infidelity with his principal assistant Wilfred Kenyon Haley. Proceedings ended with Powell securing custody of his three children.[1] Whilst returning home on the SS Margha in March 1931, Powell died suddenly aboard when the ship was off the coast of Jersey. Having remarried, his wife came to meet him at Plymouth, only to discover Powell's death; only days previously, he had written to her from Marseille informing her he was on his way home from India.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "Erring wife's plea". Morning Leader. London. 16 June 1911. p. 3. Retrieved 12 November 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. ^ "First-Class Matches played by Samuel Powell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  3. ^ "First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Samuel Powell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  4. ^ "First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Samuel Powell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  5. ^ "Samuel Powell as Umpire in First-Class Matches". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  6. ^ "Tragedy for wife". Western Morning News. Plymouth. 23 March 1931. p. 8. Retrieved 12 November 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.