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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. James Cranston (9
January 1859 in Bordesley, Birmingham - 10 December 1904 in Bristol) was
an amateur cricketer who was educated at Taunton College in Somerset and
went on to play 103 first-class cricket matches for Gloucestershire
County Cricket Club between 1876 and 1899. He also played for
Warwickshire County Cricket Club in 1886 and 1887, which was before
Warwickshire gained first-class status. He also played one Test match
for England against Australia in 1890. Although he only played in that
one Test, at the Oval at the end of the 1890 season, it was a
low-scoring match, and his innings were important in England's two
wicket victory, which saw them win the Ashes. Wisden Cricketers'
Almanack said of his innings that that "his defence under very trying
conditions against the bowling of Turner and Ferris was masterly".
