A left-arm medium pace bowler, he delivered the ball with great control of length and could break it either way off the pitch.
After taking 13 wickets in three non-first-class innings against R. G. Warton's touring side in 1888-89, he was selected for what became the very first Test match between the two countries, played at Port Elizabeth.
[4] He died shortly after the 1889–90 season finished, aged 24, in Chiloane Island, Mozambique.
His death went unrecorded at the time and no obituary appeared for him in Wisden Cricketer's Almanack.
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