George Pinder
English county cricketer and umpire
Died when: 61 years 184 days (738 months)Star Sign: Cancer
George Pinder (15 July 1841 – 15 January 1903) was an English first-class cricketer.His birth name was George Pinder Hattersley and he was born in Ecclesfield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.
A wicket-keeper, he played for Yorkshire from 1867 to 1880, and for the All-England Eleven from 1867 to 1871.He also umpired in some matches between 1873 and 1880.
He was recognised as a fine wicket-keeper, his work to the fast bowlers - at a time when keepers "stood up" (i.e. within arm's reach of the wicket) to fast bowling - being particularly impressive.
He had plenty of practice, since Tom Emmett was in the same Yorkshire side.He had to deal with Emmett's famous "sostenuter", a ball pitching on the leg stump and then breaking sharply towards the off bail.
He was renowned for the slickness of his stumpings of batsmen.When Tom Hearne was stumped off a leg-shooter he exclaimed: "I don't call that stumping;
I call it shovelling of 'em in!" He is believed to have been the first keeper to dispense with a long-stop, during a North v.
South match in the mid or late 1870s.The idea came from his captain A.N.Hornby.Pinder was at first reluctant, but the experiment was a success.
On another occasion, at The Oval, Ephraim Lockwood who was fielding long-stop said: "Nay, George, I've been behind thee for twenty-three overs and had nowt to stop.
I'm off where there's summat [something] to do." Pinder died in January 1903 in Hickleton, Yorkshire, aged 61.
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