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'''Edmund Hinkly''' (12 January 1817 – 8 December 1880) was an English professional [[cricket]]er, most notable for being the first man known to have taken all ten wickets in a [[first-class cricket]] innings in an eleven-a-side game. He achieved this while playing for [[Kent County Cricket Club]] against an [[All-England Eleven|England XI]] at [[Lord's]] in 1848.<ref name=ci11jun03>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/128779.html Cowdrey's crowning glory], [[CricInfo]], 2003-06-11. Retrieved 2017-11-09.</ref><ref name=carlaw>Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 256–257. ([https://archive.acscricket.com/books/Kent_Cricketers_A_to_Z_Part_One_Revised_Expanded.pdf Available online] at the [[Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians]]. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)</ref>

Hinkly was born at [[Benenden]] in [[Kent]] in 1817.<ref name=ci>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/14844.html Edmund Hinkly], [[CricInfo]]. Retrieved 2017-11-09.</ref> He made his first-class cricket debut for Kent against [[Surrey County Cricket Club|Surrey]] at [[The Oval]] in 1846, going on to play in 43 known first-class matches between then and 1858.<ref name=ca>[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/30/30269/30269.html Edmund Hinkly], CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-11-09. {{subscription required}}</ref> He was a professional player for [[Northumberland County Cricket Club|Northumberland]] in 1862 and, as well as playing for them and Kent, played two matches for Surrey and appeared four times for England in matches against counties, twice for South of England and once for "Surrey Club".<ref name=ca /> He stood as an [[umpire (cricket)|umpire]] for the Surrey v Kent match at The Oval in 1852.<ref name=ca /> He played for a number of clubs in different parts of the country as a professional.<ref name=pearson>Pearson H (2013) ''The Trundlers'' London: Hachette UK. ([https://books.google.com/books?id=ini13-SQmKEC&dq=edmund%20hinkly&pg=PT31 Available online]. Retrieved 2017-11-09.)</ref>

The most notable incident of his career was taking all ten wickets in an innings for Kent in 1848, the first time that the feat of taking all ten wickets had been recorded.<ref name=ci11jun03 /> His exact bowling analysis is unknown as runs conceded were not recorded.{{efn-ua|Note that surviving match records in the 19th century are not always complete and any statistical compilation of a player's career in that period is based on ''known'' data. Match scorecards were not always created, or have been lost, and the matches themselves were not always recorded in the press or other media. Scorecard data was not comprehensive: e.g., bowling analyses lacked balls bowled and runs conceded; bowlers were not credited with wickets when the batsman was caught or stumped; in many matches, the means of dismissal were omitted.}}

He died at [[Walworth, London]] in 1880 aged 63.<ref name=ci />

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==External links==
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