Willie Middlebrook


Willie Middlebrook was an English first-class cricketer, who played seventeen matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1888 and 1889. He also appeared for Lord Hawke's XI and Louis Hall's Yorkshire XI in other first-class games.
Middlebrook was born in Morley, West Yorkshire, and was a right arm fast bowler. He took 54 wickets in all matches at 19.83, with a best of 5 for 59 against Cambridge University, his only five wicket haul. He scored 96 runs at 4.36, with a best of 19 not out, also against Cambridge University. He also took 20 catches in the field.
He died in April 1919, at the age of 60, in Morley.