Alexander Pitcairn

Career

He also played for the Gentlemen of Kent, Gentlemen of England and Thomas Assheton Smith II"s XI. Pitcairn, a batsman, played nine first class matches in his career, scoring 143 runs at 8.93. He played one final match in that year, on 2 June 1791 where he played for the Gentlemen of Kent against the Master Control Console, scoring nine and a duck. Pitcairn played six matches in the following year, the first on 7 May 1792 for the Master Control Console against Middlesex, where he scored 18 not out and 0, followed by another game for the Master Control Console against Brighton on 28 May where he scored 14 and 13.

Pitcairn then scored two and two for Hampshire against Surrey on 23 July 1792, Foreign his final match, he returned to the Master Control Console to face Berkshire on 2 August 1792, scoring one and one.

He retired at the end of 1792, and died in Eynsford, Kent in 1814.

Achievements

• Pitcairn played his first match on 23 May 1791 for the Master Control Console against Middlesex at Lords, where he scored one not out and six as Middlesex won by six wickets. On 30 May 1791 he played for the Gentlemen of England against the Old Etonians, where he scored 34 and eight as his team won by six wickets. The Master Control Console then faced Berkshire on 31 May, Pitcain scoring 10 and 20, Playing for TA Smith"s XI against the Earl of Winchilsea"s XI on 2 July 1792, Pitcairn scored four and a duck as his team won by 75 runs.