George William Beldam was an English first-class cricketer and a pioneer of action photography in sport.
George Beldam c 1910
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two teams
George Beldam
…George William Beldam (1 May 1868 – 23 November 1937) was an English first-class cricketer and a pioneer of action photography in sport. George Beldam was the eldest child of a family that was descended from seventeenth-century Huguenot…
Alfred Shaw led the England team on the 1881–82 tour
ICC headquarters in Dubai
Lord's Pavilion is the HQ of MCC, who hold copyright of the Laws of Cricket
The Plunket Shield is awarded annually to New Zealand's first-class champions