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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name =<br />
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| country = England<br />
| full_name = John Kenneth Hosking<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1913|3|10|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Camborne]], Cornwall, England<br />
| death_date = 1999<br />
| death_place = [[Canterbury]], Kent, England<br />
| family = <br />
| batting = Unknown<br />
| bowling = <br />
| role = <br />
| club1 = [[Karnataka cricket team|Mysore]]<br />
| year1 = 1935/36<br />
| clubnumber1 =<br />
| club2 = [[Cornwall County Cricket Club|Cornwall]]<br />
| year2 = 1932&ndash;1938<br />
| clubnumber2 = <br />
| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches1 = 1<br />
| runs1 = 32<br />
| bat avg1 = 16.00<br />
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0<br />
| top score1 = 30<br />
| deliveries1 = &ndash;<br />
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| catches/stumpings1 = &ndash;/&ndash;<br />
| date = 4 January<br />
| year = 2015<br />
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/29362.html ESPNcricinfo<br />
}}<br />
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'''John Kenneth Hosking''' (10 March 1913 – 1999<ref>{{cite web |title=Ken Hosking profile |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13740/13740.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=2 May 2024}}</ref>) was an English [[cricket]]er active in the 1930s. Hosking, whose [[batsman (cricket)|batting]] and [[bowling (cricket)|bowling]] styles are unknown, played in one [[first-class cricket]] match.<br />
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Hosking made his debut for [[Cornwall County Cricket Club|Cornwall]] against the [[Kent County Cricket Club|Kent Second XI]] in the 1932 [[Minor Counties Championship]].<ref name="MCM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13740/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Ken Hosking|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=4 January 2015}}</ref> He continued to play [[Minor counties of English and Welsh cricket|minor counties cricket]] for Cornwall until 1934, after which he left England for the [[British Raj]]. While there he played a single first-class match for [[Karnataka cricket team|Mysore]] against [[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Madras]] in the [[1935–36 Ranji Trophy]] at the [[Gymkhana Ground, Bangalore]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13740/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Kenneth Hosking|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=4 January 2015}}</ref> He scored 30 runs in Mysore's first-innings, before being dismissed by [[A. G. Ram Singh|Ram Singh]], while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 2 runs by [[Morappakam Gopalan]], with Madras winning the match by 109 runs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/15/15641.html|title=Mysore v Madras, 1935/36 Ranji Trophy|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=4 January 2015}}</ref> Upon returning to England, Hosking played eight Minor Counties Championship matches for Cornwall in 1938.<ref name="MCM"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/29362.html Ken Hosking] at [[ESPNcricinfo]]<br />
*[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13740/13740.html Ken Hosking] at CricketArchive<br />
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[[Category:English cricketers]]<br />
[[Category:Cornwall cricketers]]<br />
[[Category:Karnataka cricketers]]<br />
[[Category:Sportspeople from Camborne]]<br />
[[Category:1913 births]]<br />
[[Category:1999 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century English sportsmen]]</div>SimonK54990761