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{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2022}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| fullname = Francis Guy Travers
| birth_date = 7 November 1882
| birth_place = [[Birkenhead]], [[Cheshire]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1950|7|5|1882|11|7}}
| death_place = [[Kensington]], [[London]],<br>England
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling = Unknown
| role =
| club1 = [[Cheshire County Cricket Club|Cheshire]]
| year1 = 1911
| club2 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year2 = 1920/21–1928/29
| club3 = [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]]
| year3 = 1926/27
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 17
| runs1 = 835
| bat avg1 = 33.40
| 100s/50s1 = 2/2
| top score1 = 121[[not out|*]]
| deliveries1 = 759
| wickets1 = 6
| bowl avg1 = 67.16
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 2/23
| catches/stumpings1 = 28/–
| date = 28 February
| year = 2019
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/35382.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Francis Guy Travers''' (7 November 1882 – 5 July 1950) was an [[English people|English]] first-class cricketer.

Travers was born at [[Birkenhead]]. He played [[Minor Counties of English and Welsh cricket|minor counties cricket]] for [[Cheshire County Cricket Club|Cheshire]] from 1911, making a single appearance in the [[Minor Counties Championship]] against [[Staffordshire County Cricket Club|Staffordshire]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14737/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html |title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Francis Travers |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-02-28 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He later lived in [[British India]], where he served as a [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] with the Scind Rifles, part of the Indian Defence Force.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=30781|date=5 July 1918|page=7953}}</ref> While in British India, Travers made his debut in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]] against the [[Parsees cricket team|Parsees]] at [[Bombay Gymkhana|Bombay]] in the 1921/22 [[Bombay Quadrangular]].<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14737/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Francis Travers |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-02-28 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He played regularly for the Europeans during the 1920s, making fourteen appearances for them in first-class cricket.<ref name="FCM"/> He also played two first-class matches for the combined [[Europeans and Parsees cricket team]]. The first of these came against the combined [[Hindus and Muslims cricket team]] in November 1922, while the second came against the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC) in December 1926;<ref name="FCM"/> in that same month he also played for [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]] against the MCC.<ref name="FCM"/> Making seventeen appearances in first-class cricket while in British India, Travers scored 835 runs at an [[batting average (cricket)|average]] of 33.40, with a high score of 121 [[not out]].<ref name="PRO">{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14737/14737.html |title=Player profile: Francis Travers |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-02-28 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> One of two [[century (cricket)|centuries]] he made in first-class cricket, this score came against the [[Muslims cricket team|Muslims]] in November 1925.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/11/11735.html |title=Europeans v Muslims, Bombay Quadrangular Tournament 1925/26 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-02-28 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was also a competent fielding, taking 28 catches.<ref name="PRO"/>

He married Emma Herman prior to 1917, with the couple having one daughter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p37803.htm#i378028 |title=Profile: Francis Guy Travers |publisher=www.thepeerage.com |accessdate=2019-02-28}}</ref> He returned to England at somepoint after 1928, where he died at [[Kensington]] in July 1950.{{fact|date=June 2022}}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=35382}}

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[[Category:1882 births]]
[[Category:1950 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Birkenhead]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Cheshire cricketers]]
[[Category:Indian Defence Force officers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans and Parsees cricketers]]
[[Category:Mumbai cricketers]]

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