William Coppinger (3 June 1849 – 6 October 1877) was an English cricketer who played seven first-class cricket matches for Kent County Cricket Club between 1868 and 1873.[1]
Coppinger was born at Bexley in Kent in 1846, the son of Edward and Mildred Coppinger. His father was a publican and came from a cricketing family.[2][3] He played club cricket as a teenager for Eltham and then for sides across Metropolitan Kent, including for Blackheath against the touring Australian Aboriginal side in 1868.[4]
He made his first-class cricket debut for Kent in 1868, playing against Sussex at Hove. Coppinger played five matches for the county in 1870, although he failed to take a wicket and made only single-figure scores, and made his final appearance in 1873, taking his only two first-class wickets in a match against Sussex at Hove where he played alongside his brother Edward. Another brother, Charles, and an uncle Septimus both also played first-class cricket.[4][5]
Coppinger emigrated to Australia in 1876 and played some cricket for South Adelaide Cricket Club. He died in Adelaide, South Australia in 1877 aged 28.[1][4]
References
edit- ^ a b William Coppinger, CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-04-21.
- ^ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 123–124. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
- ^ Coppinger, Edward Thomas, Obituaries in 1927, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1928. Retrieved 2017-04-21.
- ^ a b c Carlaw, pp. 125–126.
- ^ William Coppinger, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-04-21. (subscription required)
External links
editWilliam Coppinger at ESPNcricinfo
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