Thomas Oatesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Thomas William Oates was a first class cricketer and test match umpire [1]. Born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire in 1875 he played 434 matches for London County and Nottinghamshire as a wicket keeper and right-handed batsman. He took 758 catches and completed 235 stumpings and scored 5976 runs with a best of 88. He then turned to umpiring, standing in 5 tests between his first, the England v West Indies match at the Oval in 1928 and his last, the Ashes match at Headingley in 1930. He died in the town of his birth in 1949.