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{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Ernest Remnant
| country = England
| full_name = Ernest Richard Remnant
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1881|5|1|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Croydon]], [[Surrey]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1969|3|18|1881|5|1|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Harrow, London|Harrow]], [[London]], England
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = [[Slow left-arm orthodox]]
| role =
| family = [[George Remnant]] (father)
| club1 = [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]]
| year1 = {{nowrap|1908–1922}}
| club2 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year2 = 1916/17
| umpire = true
| fcumpired = 2
| umpfcdebutyr = 1912
| umpfclastyr =
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 124
| runs1 = 2,877
| bat avg1 = 17.12
| 100s/50s1 = 1/10
| top score1 = 115[[not out|*]]
| deliveries1 = 9,196
| wickets1 = 172
| bowl avg1 = 27.32
| fivefor1 = 7
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 8/61
| catches/stumpings1 = 60/–
| date = 1 March
| year = 2010
| source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/19366.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Ernest Richard Remnant''' (1 May 1881 — 18 March 1969) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er. Remnant made over 120 appearances in [[first-class cricket]], the majority of which came for [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]], though he also played three first-class matches in [[British India]] during the [[First World War]]. In all first-class cricket, he scored nearly 3,000 runs and took over 170 wickets; he was utilised as an [[all-rounder]] who batted right-handed and bowled [[slow left-arm orthodox]]. After his playing career, he coached cricket at [[Harrow School]].

==Pre-war cricket career==
The son of the cricketer [[George Remnant]],<ref name="OBIT">{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228449.html|title=Wisden – Obituaries in 1969|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=20 March 2024}}</ref> he was born at [[Croydon]] in May 1881. An [[all-rounder|all-round]] professional cricketer, Remnant made his debut in [[first-class cricket]] for [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]] against [[Surrey County Cricket Club|Surrey]] at [[The Oval]] in the [[1908 County Championship]], with him making eleven appearances in his debut season.<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6821/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Ernest Remnant|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=20 March 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He played intermittently over the proceeding seasons, making five appearances in 1909 and two in 1910.<ref name="FCM"/> Remnant established himself in the Hampshire starting eleven in 1911, making thirteen appearances;<ref name="FCM"/> he scored his only first-class [[century (cricket)|century]] during this season, making an [[not out|unbeaten]] 115 against [[Kent County Cricket Club|Kent]] at [[County Ground, Southampton|Southampton]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228449.html|title=Wisden – Obituaries in 1969|work=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref> The form he showed in this match, and subsequent good form, was described as "surprising" by ''[[The Illustrated Police News]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000072/19110617/069/0010|title=Wiltshire and Hants|work=[[The Illustrated Police News]]|location=[[London]]|page=10|date=17 June 1911|access-date=21 March 2024|url-access=subscription|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> During that season, Remnant also had some success with his [[slow left-arm orthodox]] bowling, taking 20 wickets and claiming his maiden [[five wicket haul]] against [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]].<ref name="FCBOS">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6821/f_Bowling_by_Season.html|title=First-Class Bowling in Each Season by Ernest Remnant|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=20 March 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8458.html|title=Somerset v Hampshire, County Championship 1911|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=20 March 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

The following season, his eleven appearances met with little success. He did, however, stand as an [[umpire (cricket)|umpire]] in two first-class matches that season.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6821/Umpire_in_First-Class_Matches.html|title=Ernest Remnant as Umpire in First-Class Matches|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=20 March 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In the 1913 and 1914 seasons he made over twenty appearances in each,<ref name="FCM"/> scoring 634 in 1913 and 877 runs in 1914,<ref name="FCBAS">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6821/f_Batting_by_Season.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Ernest Remnant|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=20 March 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> whilst taking 28 and 23 wickets respectively;<ref name="FCBOS"/> in 1914, he achieved his best bowling figures to that point, taking 6 for 20 against the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] at [[Lord's]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9265.html|title=Marylebone Cricket Club v Hampshire, Other First-Class matches in England 1914|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=20 March 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> With the outbreak of the [[First World War]] in July, first-class cricket was shortly thereafter suspended.

==WWI and post-war cricket==
Remnant served in the [[British Army]] during the war as a [[Non-commissioned officer#United Kingdom|non-commissioned officer]] with the 5th Battalion, [[Royal Hampshire Regiment|Hampshire Regiment]], alongside peers from Hampshire.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS67437350/TTDA?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-TTDA&pg=4&xid=244b7855|title=Patriotism Before Sport|work=The Times|location=London|page=4|issue=40627|date=6 September 1914|access-date=10 October 2025|url-access=subscription|via=Gale}}</ref><ref name="HCH">{{cite web|url=https://hampshirecrickethistory.wordpress.com/2018/04/24/a-z-r3/|title=A–Z (R3)|website=www.hampshirecrickethistory.wordpress.com|access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref> He served for a proportion of the war in [[British India]], where he played three first-class matches. The first of these was for an [[Rest of England cricket teams|England XI]] against [[India national cricket team|India]] at [[Bombay Gymkhana|Bombay]] in December 1915, with the match played in aid of the Women's Branch of the Bombay Presidency War and Relief Fund.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zsVdAwAAQBAJ|title=Wisden on the Great War|first=Andrew|last=Renshaw|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]]|location=London|page=63|year=2014|isbn=9781408832363|language=en}}</ref> His second and third matches both came for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Hindus cricket team|Hindus]] and the [[Parsis cricket team|Parsees]] in the 1916–17 [[Bombay Tournament (cricket)|Bombay Quadrangular]].<ref name="FCM"/> He was invalided out of active service in 1919, a year after the war had ended.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002177/19190201/100/0005|title=Cricket|work=Bournemouth Guardian|page=5|date=1 February 1919|access-date=21 March 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>

Remnant resumed his first-class career with Hampshire in 1920, making eleven appearances in the [[1920 County Championship|County Championship]].<ref name="FCM"/> Though he did not have success with the bat in his return season, he nonetheless took 25 wickets and claimed one five wicket haul.<ref name="FCBOS"/> His best season as a bowler came in 1921,<ref name="HCH"/> when his eighteen matches yielded him 46 wickets at an [[bowling average|average]] of 23.89, with four five wicket hauls;<ref name="FCBOS"/> amongst these were his career best figures of 8 for 61 against [[Essex County Cricket Club|Essex]] at [[Castle Park Cricket Ground|Colchester]].<ref name="OBIT"/> After four first-class appearances in 1922, Remnant retired. In total, he made 121 appearances in first-class cricket for Hampshire, scoring 2,843 runs at a [[batting average (cricket)|batting average]] of 17.33.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6821/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Ernest Remnant|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=21 March 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> With the ball, he took 170 wickets at an average of 27.35,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6821/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Ernest Remnant|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=21 March 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> taking five wickets or more in an innings on seven occasions.<ref name="OBIT"/> When his first-class career came to an end, Remnant was employed as the assistant cricket [[Coach (sport)|coach]] at [[Harrow School]]. He was also renowned as a fine [[Wood carving|wood carver]]; his home in [[Harrow, London|Harrow]] depicted carved scenes from the [[Battle of Hastings]].<ref name="OBIT"/> Remnant died at Harrow on 18 March 1969.<ref name="OBIT"/>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo}}

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