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E.H. Budd — The Strongest Hitter at Lord's, 1810s
MCC, All-England, various private elevens
1816-06-01
Through the 1810s Edward Hayward Budd was the second-most-prominent gentleman amateur in English cricket after Lord Frederick Beauclerk and the strongest hitter at Lord's. A right-handed batsman and occasional medium-pace lob bowler, Budd had first played at Lord's in about 1804 and remained a fixture of MCC cricket until 1831. His career was disrupted by the Napoleonic War like everyone else's, but he returned to senior cricket in 1815 and through the rest of the decade was the most reliable counterweight to Beauclerk's tactical authority.
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