Richard Williams (cricketer, born 1901)
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| Full name | Richard Harry Williams | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
23 April 1901 Brockmoor, Staffordshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died |
19 December 1982 (aged 81) Stourbridge, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1923—1932 | Worcestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: , 1 August 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Richard Harry Williams (23 April 1901—19 December 1982) was an English cricketer who played 37 first-class matches for Worcestershire between 1923 and 1932. He averaged barely 11 in his career, though his obituary in Wisden suggested that he had played "some useful innings".[1]
Williams' career began very badly. In his first game, against Derbyshire, he made 4 and 2* in 1923.[2] He did not appear again until 1925, when in his first nine innings of the season he made just 13 runs.[3] He brought this dreadful sequence to a close with 23 against Sussex in early June, then followed it up with the first of just three half-centuries: 56 versus Nottinghamshire.[4]
This innings was a false dawn, however, and in Williams' next 30 innings he never made more than 41.[3] By now it was August 1926, but then — admittedly after the match was dead[1] — he produced what was to be his career-best innings: 81 against Nottinghamshire (again) at Trent Bridge.[5] Another lengthy run of failures followed, and although he made an unbeaten 76 against Yorkshire in early May 1928,[6] he was out of the side again by the start of June.
Williams was to make only three more first-class appearances: two in 1931 and one in 1932. His four innings produced scores of 2, 0, 0 and 1, bringing an unhappy end to his largely unsuccessful career in county cricket.
Notes
- 1 2 Obituary. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1984.
- ↑ "Worcestershire v Derbyshire in 1923". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2008-08-01.
- 1 2 "Player Oracle". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2008-08-01.
- ↑ "Worcestershire v Nottinghamshire in 1925". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2008-08-01.
- ↑ "Nottinghamshire v Worcestershire in 1926". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2008-08-01.
- ↑ "Worcestershire v Yorkshire in 1928". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2008-08-01.