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Schofield Haigh
1871Mar, 19

Schofield Haigh

Schofield Haigh, English cricketer and coach (d. 1921)
Schofield Haigh (19 March 1871 – 27 February 1921) was a Yorkshire and England cricketer. He played for eighteen seasons for Yorkshire County Cricket Club, for England from the 1898/99 tour to 1912, and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1901.

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