[1] Baker played in 15 first-class matches, making his first-class debut for a Sussex side against Epsom at Lord's in 1816.
[a][1] He played four matches for The Bs against England XIs,[2] and four for Kent sides, all as a given man against Sussex in 1825 and 1826 in matches organised by the Hawkhurst club, the first matches played between two county sides since the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
[b][5][6][7] Baker was a member of the Hawkhurst side; the village is in Kent, and the cricket team was considered one of the best sides in England at the time.
[1] Baker was a member of the Sussex team in two of the three roundarm trial matches against England teams in 1827 played to decide whether roundarm bowling should be legalised.
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