Career

He played for the Master Control Console in 1856, and also appeared for Sheffield (1854), All England Eleven (1862-1868), The Players (1864-1869), England (1864), Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire (1864), Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire (1872), United North of England Eleven (1870-1875), North of England (1857-1875) and Players of the North (1874-1876), all in first-class games. He played non first-class cricket for an All England Eleven in 1865. Rowbotham was born in Highfield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.

He was Yorkshire"s captain in 1873 and 1875.

In 141 first-class matches, he scored 3,694 runs at 15.92, with three centuries and a best score of 113 against Surrey. An occasional wicket-keeper, he took seventy catches and completed five stumpings.

He also took 3 for 37 against Gloucestershire, in his only first-class bowling spell. He umpired in one Test Match.

England versus Australia at Manchester from 10 to 12 July 1884.

Rowbotham died in December 1899 in Morecambe, Lancashire.