Charles Winter

Charles Edgar Winter (9 October 1865 – 3 April 1954) was an English cricketer who played 25 first-class matches for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1882 and 1895. A right-arm fast bowler, he claimed 50 wickets for the county at a Bowling average of 22.14. His highest score was 62, the only occasion on which he made a half-century.

Cricket career Winter played his first match for Somerset in 1879 aged just 13 in a match against Wells Cricket Club. His next matches for the then second-class county came in 1881 when he claimed three wickets against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), and five against Hampshire. Somerset were awarded first-class status in 1882, and it was in this season that Winter made his debut first-class appearance, playing for the county against Hampshire. By the time of his first-class debut, Winter was still only aged 16, making him among the youngest debutants to have played first-class cricket for Somerset. Coming on to bowl at the first change of bowling, Winter claimed a wicket in his first innings, with the Hampshire captain Russell Bencraft being caught off his bowling. He was dismissed for six in both of Somerset's innings. It was another match against Hampshire in which Winter improved his bowling figures, taking four wickets for 20 runs. Playing the same opposition later that season, Somerset had only travelled to Southampton for the match with nine players. After scoring 22 in the first-innings, Winter was promoted to open the second for Somerset, and scored his highest total, and only half-century, making 62 runs.

His son, also named Charles Winter, subsequently also played for Somerset.

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