Clement Mitchell

Clement Mitchell
Personal information
Date of birth	20 February 1862
Place of birth	Cambridge, England
Date of death	6 October 1937 (aged 75)
Place of death	Aldrington, Hove, England
Position(s)	Centre-forward
Senior career*
Years	Team
	Upton Park
International career
1880–1885	England
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Clement Mitchell (20 February 1862 – 6 October 1937) was an English sportsman who represented the England national football team and played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club.

Mitchell was born at Cambridge in 1862 and was educated at Felsted School.[1][2] He was the first Englishman to score a hat-trick against Wales in an international, with goals in the 16th, 70th and 90th minutes of their 1883 clash at Kennington Oval. A centre-forward, he also scored a goal in a loss to Scotland a month later and in a 1–1 draw with Wales at the 1885 British Home Championship.[3]

Mitchell had been a dominant batsman at school and played club cricket for Crystal Palace Cricket Club. In club cricket he scored double centuries and between 1890 and 1892 made eight first-class cricket appearances as a left-handed batsman for Kent.[2][4] He had less success at county cricket level, scoring 126 runs at a batting average of less than 10 runs per innings.[2][4][5]

Mitchell died at Aldrington in Sussex in 1937 aged 75.[1]

References

Clement Mitchell, CricInfo. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
Mitchell, Mr Clement, Obituaries in 1937, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1938. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
"England Player Profile: Clement Mitchell". England F.C. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008.
Clement Mitchell, CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 389–390. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 21 December 2020.)

External links

Clement Mitchell at ESPNcricinfo
Clement Mitchell at Englandstats.com

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[ci-1] Clement Mitchell, CricInfo. Retrieved 19 December 2018.

[wis38-2] Mitchell, Mr Clement, Obituaries in 1937, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1938. Retrieved 19 December 2018.

[3] "England Player Profile: Clement Mitchell". England F.C. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008.

[ca-4] Clement Mitchell, CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 December 2018.

[carlaw-5] Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 389–390. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 21 December 2020.)