Carst Posthuma

Dutch cricketer (1868–1939)

Carst Posthuma

Posthuma in 1920

Personal information

Full name

Carst Jan Posthuma

Born

(1868-01-11)11 January 1868
Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands

Died

21 December 1939(1939-12-21) (aged 71)
Near Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands

Batting

Left-handed

Bowling

Left-arm fast

International information

National side

Netherlands

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1903

London County

Career statistics

Competition	First-class
Matches	5
Runs scored	45
Batting average	7.50
100s/50s	–/–
Top score	29
Balls bowled	644
Wickets	23
Bowling average	15.04
5 wickets in innings	2
10 wickets in match	1
Best bowling	7/68
Catches/stumpings	1/–

Source: CricketArchive, 17 January 2011

Carst Jan Posthuma (11 January 1868 – 21 December 1939) was a Dutch cricket player of the late 19th/early 20th century. He was a left-handed batsman and left-arm fast bowler.

He played 72 times for the Dutch national team up to 1928, when he would have been sixty years old. He holds the Dutch record for most wickets in a career, taking 2,338 wickets at an average of 8.67. He was also the first Dutchman to take 100 wickets in a season in 1900, and the first to score a century in domestic cricket in 1894.

Perhaps the highest point of his career came in 1903 when he played five first-class games for W. G. Grace's London County Cricket Club.^[1] In his five matches, he took 23 wickets at an average of 15.04, with best bowling figures of 7/68 coming against Leicestershire.