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{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2016}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| country = England
| fullname = Arthur Horace Lang
| image = Lieutenant Arthur Horace Lang.jpg
| caption = Lang as a Grenadier Guards officer.
| nickname =
| birth_date = 25 October 1890
| birth_place = [[Mumbai|Bombay]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British Raj]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|1|25|1890|10|25|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Cuinchy]], [[Nord-Pas-de-Calais]], [[France]]
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| heightm =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| role = [[Wicket-keeper]]
| family =
| club1 = [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]]
| year1 = 1912–1913
| clubnumber1 =
| club2 = [[Sussex County Cricket Club|Sussex]]
| year2 = 1911–1913
| clubnumber2 =
| club3 = [[Suffolk County Cricket Club|Suffolk]]
| year3 = 1907–1911
| clubnumber3 =
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 22
| runs1 = 830
| bat avg1 = 22.43
| 100s/50s1 = 2/2
| top score1 = 141
| deliveries1 = –
| wickets1 = –
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = 17/16
| date = 9 December
| year = 2013
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/16450.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Arthur Horace Lang''' (25 October 1890 – 25 January 1915) was an English [[cricket]]er active in the first decade of the 1900s and in the first years of the following decade, making over twenty appearances in [[first-class cricket]]. Born at [[Mumbai|Bombay]] in the [[British Raj]], Lang was a right-handed [[batsman (cricket)|batsman]] who played as a [[wicket-keeper]].

==Cricket career==
Lang was educated at [[Harrow School]], where he [[captain (cricket)|captained]] the school cricket team in 1908 and 1909.<ref name="OBIT">{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/229821.html|title=Wisden - Obituaries in 1915|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|accessdate=10 December 2013}}</ref> A year prior to captaining the school, Lang had made his debut in [[county cricket]] for [[Suffolk County Cricket Club|Suffolk]] against [[Hertfordshire County Cricket Club|Hertfordshire]] in the 1907 [[Minor Counties Championship]], with him making two further appearances for the county in that season.<ref name="MCM">{{cite web |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30869/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Arthur Lang|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=9 December 2013}}</ref> He followed this up by playing three matches for Suffolk in 1908, but played only one match each in 1909 and 1910.<ref name="MCM"/> He played three further matches for the county in the 1911 Minor Counties Championship, the last of which came against [[Norfolk County Cricket Club|Norfolk]].<ref name="MCM"/>

In May 1911, Lang made his debut in [[first-class cricket]] for [[Sussex County Cricket Club|Sussex]] against [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] at [[Fenner's]], in what was his only first-class appearance of that season.<ref name="FCM">{{cite web |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30869/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Arthur Lang|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=9 December 2013}}</ref> He played six first-class matches for Sussex in 1912, as well as making his debut ''for'' Cambridge University (where he was at [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205384251 |title=Lieutenant Arthur Horace Lang |publisher=Imperial War Museum}}</ref>) against the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]].<ref name="FCM"/> Lang secured his place in the Cambridge side in 1913, displacing the incumbent wicket-keeper [[Walter Franklin (cricketer)|Walter Franklin]] who the Cambridge selectors considered an inferior batsman to Lang.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228446.html|title=Obituaries - 1968|work=[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack]]|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|accessdate=9 December 2013}}</ref> He played seven first-class matches for the university in 1913, as well as six for Sussex, most of which came in the latter stages of the [[1913 County Championship|County Championship]].<ref name="FCM"/> He made what would be a final appearance in first-class cricket for [[Lionel Robinson|L. G. Robinson's XI]] in 1914.<ref name="FCM"/> In a total of 22 first-class appearances, Lang scored 830 runs at an [[batting average (cricket)|average]] of 22.43, with a high score of 141, while behind the [[stumps]] he took seventeen [[catch (cricket)|catches]] and made sixteen [[stumping]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30869/30869.html|title=Player profile: Arthur Lang|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=10 December 2013}}</ref> He made two [[century (cricket)|centuries]] in first-class cricket, both for Sussex.<ref>{{cite web |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30869/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Arthur Lang|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=10 December 2013}}</ref>

==War service and death==
With the onset of the First World War, Lang enlisted in the [[British Army]] and served with the [[Grenadier Guards]] with the rank of [[2nd Lieutenant]].<ref name="OBIT"/> He was reported missing in action on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] near the village of [[Cuinchy]] in northern France on 26 January 1915, presumed killed the previous day.<ref name="OBIT"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/cricketers-who-died-in-world-war-1-part-4-of-5-167609 |title=Cricketers who died in World War 1 — Part 4 of 5 |work=Cricket Country |accessdate=28 November 2018}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990|List of people who disappeared]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/16450.html Arthur Lang] at [[ESPNcricinfo]]
*[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30869/30869.html Arthur Lang] at CricketArchive

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[[Category:Military personnel of British India]]
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