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William Caffyn
William Caffyn (2 February 1828 – 28 August 1919) was an English cricketer who played mainly for Surrey. He played in over 200 important matches, 89 of them for Surrey. He made five appearances for New South Wales, two for Kent and one for Lancashire as well as appearing five times for the Marylebone Cricket Club.
Caffyn was born in Reigate in Surrey in 1828 and died in 1919 aged 91 in the town.
Caffyn was a genuine all-rounder: a middle-order right-handed batsman and an effective right-arm medium-fast roundarm bowler. He played a major part in the success of Surrey during the 1850s.
Caffyn's known career extended from 1849 to 1873. He took 602 wickets in his 200 matches at an average of 13.47 runs each, with a best analysis of nine wickets for the cost of 29 runs (9/29). He took five wickets in an innings 49 times and 10 wickets in a match 11 times. He scored 5,885 runs at an average of 17.99 runs per innings, with a highest score of 103, one of his two centuries. In 1860 whilst employed as a professional at Winchester College he played and beat an XI of the Town of Winchester single handed by 28 runs. Caffyn made scores of 35 and 1, and with two men fielding for him he bowled out the opposition for 4 and 4.
At the end of the 1859 English cricket season, Caffyn was one of the 12 players who took part in cricket's first-ever overseas tour when an England cricket team led by George Parr visited North America.
Caffyn was instrumental in the early development of Australian cricket and the establishment of Anglo-Australian competition. He first came to Australia with a sponsored team which consisted of mainly Surrey cricketers in 1861/62, visiting again in 1863/64. For both of these trips, Caffyn and the team travelled to Melbourne on the SS Great Britain. Following his 1864 visit he remained in Australia as coach of the Melbourne Cricket Club.
After a period in Melbourne, he moved to Sydney, where he started a hairdressing business with his wife and coached at the Warwick Club. During this time he was closely associated with fellow ex-Surrey professional cricketer Charles Lawrence who coached at the Albert Cricket Club in Sydney.
In his book Seventy-one Not Out he wrote:
William Caffyn
William Caffyn (2 February 1828 – 28 August 1919) was an English cricketer who played mainly for Surrey. He played in over 200 important matches, 89 of them for Surrey. He made five appearances for New South Wales, two for Kent and one for Lancashire as well as appearing five times for the Marylebone Cricket Club.
Caffyn was born in Reigate in Surrey in 1828 and died in 1919 aged 91 in the town.
Caffyn was a genuine all-rounder: a middle-order right-handed batsman and an effective right-arm medium-fast roundarm bowler. He played a major part in the success of Surrey during the 1850s.
Caffyn's known career extended from 1849 to 1873. He took 602 wickets in his 200 matches at an average of 13.47 runs each, with a best analysis of nine wickets for the cost of 29 runs (9/29). He took five wickets in an innings 49 times and 10 wickets in a match 11 times. He scored 5,885 runs at an average of 17.99 runs per innings, with a highest score of 103, one of his two centuries. In 1860 whilst employed as a professional at Winchester College he played and beat an XI of the Town of Winchester single handed by 28 runs. Caffyn made scores of 35 and 1, and with two men fielding for him he bowled out the opposition for 4 and 4.
At the end of the 1859 English cricket season, Caffyn was one of the 12 players who took part in cricket's first-ever overseas tour when an England cricket team led by George Parr visited North America.
Caffyn was instrumental in the early development of Australian cricket and the establishment of Anglo-Australian competition. He first came to Australia with a sponsored team which consisted of mainly Surrey cricketers in 1861/62, visiting again in 1863/64. For both of these trips, Caffyn and the team travelled to Melbourne on the SS Great Britain. Following his 1864 visit he remained in Australia as coach of the Melbourne Cricket Club.
After a period in Melbourne, he moved to Sydney, where he started a hairdressing business with his wife and coached at the Warwick Club. During this time he was closely associated with fellow ex-Surrey professional cricketer Charles Lawrence who coached at the Albert Cricket Club in Sydney.
In his book Seventy-one Not Out he wrote:
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