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{{Short description|English sportsman (1875–1960)}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024|cs1-dates=ly formats}}
{{Infobox cricketer
|                name = Cuthbert Burnup
|               image = Cuthbert Burnup c1905.jpg
|             caption = Burnup in about 1905 
|             country = England
|            fullname = Cuthbert James Burnup
|            nickname = Pinky
|          birth_date = {{Birth date|1875|11|21|df=y}}
|         birth_place = [[Blackheath, London|Blackheath]], Kent
|          death_date = {{Death date and age|1960|4|5|1875|11|21|df=y}}
|         death_place = [[Golders Green]], [[Middlesex]]
|             batting = Right-handed
|               club1 = [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]]
|               year1 = 1895–1898
|               club2 = [[Kent County Cricket Club|Kent]]
|               year2 = 1896–1907
|               club3 = [[Marylebone Cricket Club]]
|               year3 = 1899–1903
|               club4 = [[London County Cricket Club|London County]]
|               year4 = 1901
|             columns = 1
|             column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
|            matches1 = 228
|               runs1 = 13,614
|            bat avg1 = 36.79
|           100s/50s1 = 26/81
|          top score1 = 200
|         deliveries1 = 5,813
|            wickets1 = 98
|           bowl avg1 = 32.42
|            fivefor1 = 4
|             tenfor1 = 0
|       best bowling1 = 6/36
|  catches/stumpings1 = 107/–
|                date = 5 March
|                year = 2016
|              source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/10177.html CricInfo
}}

'''Cuthbert James''' "'''Pinky'''" '''Burnup''' (21 November 1875 – 5 April 1960) was an English amateur sportsman who played [[cricket]] and [[Association football|football]] around the turn of the 20th century. Burnup played once for the [[England football team]] but is more renowned for playing over 200 [[first-class cricket]] matches, mainly for [[Kent County Cricket Club]]. He was named as one of ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]''{{'}}s [[Cricketers of the Year]] in 1903.

==Early life and education==
Burnup was born in [[Blackheath, London|Blackheath]], then part of the county of [[Kent]], the son of J. M. Burnup. He was educated at [[Malvern School]], where he captained the school cricket and [[Racquets (sport)|racquets]] teams,<ref name=ccprofile>[http://www.corinthian-casuals.com/player-profiles.html Corinthians – Notable Players] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026123608/http://www.corinthian-casuals.com/player-profiles.html |date=2018-10-26 }}, Corinthian-Casuals Football Club. Retrieved 2016-03-20.</ref> and, from 1894, [[Clare College, Cambridge]], gaining [[Blue (university sport)|Blues]] in football and cricket.<ref name=wisden1961>Obituaries in 1960 – Burnup, Mr Cuthbert James, ''[[Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack]]'', 1961. [http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228437.html Available online]. Retrieved 2016-03-20.</ref><ref name=wisden1903>Pinky Burnup – Cricketer of the Year 1903, ''[[Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack]]'', 1903. [http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/154787.html Available online]. Retrieved 2016-03-20.</ref> Burnup played for [[Cambridge University Cricket Club]] for three years from 1896, leading the university in runs scored in both 1896 and 1898, and the [[Cambridge University A.F.C.|University football team]] from 1895 to 1898.<ref name=wisden1903 /><ref name=venn>[[John Venn|Venn J]], [[John Archibald Venn|Venn JA]] (1940) Burnup, Cuthbert James, ''[[Alumni Cantabrigienses|Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900]]'', Part II, Vol 1, p.461.</ref>

==Football career==
Burnup played 79 matches for [[Corinthian F.C.]] between 1894 and 1901, scoring 28 times.<ref name=ccprofile /> He played on the left wing and was considered a quick player who could dribble the ball effectively.<ref name=ccprofile /> He toured with Corinthian to South Africa in 1897 and helped the club win the [[London Charity Cup]] in the same year.<ref name=ccprofile /><ref name=rice>Rice T, [http://content-www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/73466.html Cricinfo – Burnup and other absent friends left Kent out in the cold], [[CricInfo]]. Retrieved 2016-03-20.</ref> He also played for [[Old Malvernians F.C.]]

Whilst at Cambridge, Burnup was selected to represent England against Scotland at [[Celtic Park]] in [[Glasgow]] in April 1896. The match, part of the [[1896–97 British Home Championship]], ended with England losing 2–1, the first Scottish victory in the fixture for 20 years.<ref name=gran10aug13>Murray S (2013) [https://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/10/england-scotland England v Scotland: after 141 years of rivalry, clash must rediscover its edge], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 2013-10-10. Retrieved 2016-03-05.</ref> The match did much to signal the end of the reliance of [[the Football Association]] on amateur footballers.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}} It was his only game for England.<ref name=wisden1961 /><ref name=efo>{{England Football Online|ref=y|access-date=24 September 2018}}</ref>

==Cricket career==
Burnup made his [[first-class cricket]] debut in 1895 for the [[Gentlemen of England]] at [[Lord's]] against [[I Zingari]].<ref name=cafcm>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28316/First-Class_Matches.html First-class matches played by Cuthbert Burnup], CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-03-20.</ref> He made his [[Kent County Cricket Club]] debut in 1896 whilst at university and played regularly for the county until 1907.<ref name=cafcm /> He scored over 1,000 runs in a season for Kent eight times and made 157 first-class appearances for the side.<ref name=wisden1961 /><ref name=cafcbyside>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28316/f_Batting_by_Team.html First-class batting and fielding for each team by Cuthbert Burnup], CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-03-20.</ref> In 1896 he became the first Kent batsman to score a century before lunch in Kent, making his century against [[Gloucestershire County Cricket Club|Gloucestershire]] at [[Bat and Ball Ground|Gravesend]].<ref name=times21>The Maidstone Week - an interesting match, ''[[The Times]]'', 1921-07-19, p.5.</ref>

As an opening batsman Burnup was considered cautious but was able to score on all types of pitch and could, when required, score quickly.<ref name=wisden1961 /><ref name=wisden1903 /> He scored Kent's first double hundred, making exactly 200 against [[Lancashire County Cricket Club|Lancashire]] in 1900, and scored over 2,000 runs in 1902.<ref name=wisden1961 /><ref name=wisden1903 /> In 1903 [[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]] named him as one of the five [[Cricketers of the Year]].<ref name=wisden1903 /><ref name=wilde46>Wilde S (2013) "1903 Five cricketers of the year" in ''Wisden Cricketers of the Year: A Celebration of Cricket's Greatest Players'', pp.46–48. ([https://books.google.com/books?id=zbRLAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA46 Available online]. Retrieved 2016-03-20.)</ref> He made 102 consecutive [[County Championship]] appearances for Kent between 1899 and 1903, becoming the first man to play in over 100 consecutive Championship matches for the county.<ref name=kccc3sep12>[http://www.kentcricket.co.uk/news/geraint-jones-reaches-impressive-county-championship-milestone Geraint Jones reaches impressive County Championship milestone], [[Kent County Cricket Club]], 2012-09-03. Retrieved 2016-04-10.</ref> He captained Kent for one season in 1903, taking over from [[Jack Mason]] who had resigned as captain at the end of the previous season.<ref name=wisden1903 />

Burnup played an important role in Kent's first County Championship winning campaign in [[Kent County Cricket Club in 1906|1906]], leading the domestic first-class [[batting average (cricket)|batting average]]s, scoring 1,207 runs at 67.05 despite playing in only 13 matches during the season.<ref name=wilde46 /><ref name=cafcbyseason>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28316/f_Batting_by_Season.html First-class batting and fielding in each season by Cuthbert Burnup], CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-03-20.</ref> He was described by [[The Guardian]] as "essentially a sound, steady batsman" who contrasted with the flamboyant [[Kenneth Hutchings]], Kent's leading run scorer of the season.<ref name=gran13sep16>Quoted in Burnton S (2016) [https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/sep/13/the-spin-kenneth-hutchings-the-somme The forgotten feats of Kenneth Hutchings, a life cruelly cut short at the Somme], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 2016-09-13. Retrieved 2016-09-13.</ref> He took part in tours to Holland, America and [[Lord Hawke's XI cricket team in Australia and New Zealand in 1902–03|Australia and New Zealand]] during his career.<ref name=ccprofile /><ref name=wisden1961 />

Burnup appears in the record books as the only first-class bowler to have 10 runs scored off one ball. This happened when he was playing for [[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]] against [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club|Derbyshire]] in 1900 during a short-lived trial system where a net was placed around the playing surface. The runs were scored by [[Sir Samuel Hill-Wood, 1st Baronet|Samuel Hill Wood]].<ref name=gran16mar2000>Lynch S (2000) [https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2000/mar/16/cricket2 Ten runs off one ball], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 2000-03-16. Retrieved 2016-03-20.</ref>

==Later life==
Burnup was a stockbroker and businessman in London.<ref name=ccprofile /> He died at North End, [[Golders Green]], [[Middlesex]] at the age of 84 in 1960.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Commons category-inline|Cuthbert Burnup}}
* {{ESPNcricinfo|id=10177}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20181026123608/http://www.corinthian-casuals.com/player-profiles.html Corinthian Casuals F.C. – Player profiles]
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| title  = [[Kent County Cricket Club]] [[List of Kent County Cricket Club captains|captain]]
| before = [[Jack Mason]]
| years  = 1903
| after  = [[C. H. B. Marsham]]
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