Richard Edmunds (cricketer)

Richard Edmunds

Personal information
Full name	Richard Harold Edmunds
Born	27 May 1970 Oakham, Rutland, England
Died	10 December 1989 (aged 19) Leicester, England
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Left arm medium-fast
Role	Bowler
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1989	Leicestershire
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A Matches 2 3 Runs scored 17 14 Batting average 5.66 7.00 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 Top score 17 9 Balls bowled 222 132 Wickets 3 2 Bowling average 37.66 59.00 5 wickets in innings – – 10 wickets in match – n/a Best bowling 2/38 2/27 Catches/stumpings 0/– 0/–
Source: Cricinfo, 10 December 1989

Richard Harold Edmunds (27 May 1970 — 10 December 1989) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-fast bowler who played for Leicestershire. He was born in Oakham and died in Leicester.

Edmunds made two first-class appearances during the 1989 season for the team, making a duck in his debut innings but scoring 17 in the second, against Gloucestershire. He also took two wickets during the match. Edmunds' second and final match was less impressive, as he was trapped LBW off the bowling of Chris Cowdrey for a duck in the only innings in which he batted.

Edmunds also made three List A appearances for the team during the season. Edmunds played in two Youth Test matches for England Young Cricketers against New Zealand in the summer of 1989, and three Youth One-Day Internationals during the same tour.

Edmunds died in 1989 at the age of just 19 years and 197 days old, as a result of injuries received in a car crash near his home in Oakham on 22 November.^[1]

References

1. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. "1990 - Obituaries in 1989". Retrieved 2008-05-19.

External links

• Richard Edmunds at Cricket Archive