Sandford Schultz
Sandford Spence Schultz (29 August 1857 – 18 December 1937), known in later life as Sandford Spence Storey, was an English cricketer, who played for Cambridge University and Lancashire and played one Test match for England.
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| Born | 29 August 1857 Birkenhead, Cheshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 18 December 1937 (aged 80) Brompton, Kensington, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bowling | Round-arm right-arm fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Life and career
Schultz was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, the son of George Edward Schultz and his wife Emma. He was educated at Uppingham and Jesus College, Cambridge.[1]
Although Schultz was only an occasional player in first-class cricket, he was prolific in club cricket and was selected as an amateur in Lord Harris's side that toured Australia in 1878-79, and played in the one Test match of that tour.
Schultz was a fast round-arm bowler and made a lot of runs in club cricket. His Wisden obituary in 1938 recalled a less happy batting experience related in a letter to The Times by a Mr Edmund Peake about a match on the Christchurch ground at Oxford in 1881:
The fast bowler (I blush to say it) committed such havoc as would have made him famous in these days. The Gentlemen refused to continue and the match was begun all over again in The Parks. One batsman – SS Schultz – was out first ball each time. Twice first ball in one innings – a record.
Schultz married Mabel Durrant in 1885.[2] He was a stockbroker, working on the Liverpool Exchange for a firm known as Messrs Hedderwick and Schultz. In 1914, around the time of the start of World War I, Schultz changed his Germanic-sounding name to Sandford Spence Storey.[2] He died in Brompton, Kensington, aged 80.
He was the only English Test cricketer with a 'z' in his surname for over a century, until Usman Afzaal played three Tests in 2001.[3]
References
- "Schultz (post Storey), Sandford Spence (SCLS875SS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- Philip Paine, "Sandford Schultz, England Cricketer", The Cricket Statistician, Autumn 2018, pp. 30–33.
- Frindall, Bill (2009). Ask Bearders. BBC Books. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-84607-880-4.