Tom Caplen (23 November 1879 – 17 April 1945) was an English cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club and Cornwall County Cricket Club. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler.
Caplen was born in Rusthall near Tunbridge Wells in Kent in 1879. He made his only first-class cricket appearance for Kent during the 1897 season aged seventeen.[1] He made at least three appearances for the Kent Second XI, the first in August 1895, when he was aged 15.[2][3]
Caplen played for Cornwall In 1898 and 1900, making one Minor Counties Championship appearance and in 1902 he played for the Madras Presidency against the Oxford University Authentics.[2] He died at Hove in Sussex in 1945 aged 65.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Tom Caplen, CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
- ^ a b Tom Caplen, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
- ^ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 101–102. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)