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| Full name | Norman Roy Williams | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 January 1931 March, Cambridgeshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1951 | Combined Services | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1949–1951 & 1960–1964 | Cambridgeshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 20 July 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norman Roy Williams (born 4 January 1931) is a former English cricketer. Williams was a right-handed batsman who bowled fast-medium. He was born at March, Cambridgeshire.
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 20-metre (22-yard) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at the wicket with the bat, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this and dismiss each player. Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground. When ten players have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee in international matches. They communicate with two off-field scorers who record the match's statistical information.
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March is a Fenland market town and civil parish in the Isle of Ely area of Cambridgeshire, England. It was the county town of the Isle of Ely which was a separate administrative county from 1889 to 1965. It is now the administrative centre of Fenland District Council.
In 1949, Williams made his Minor Counties Championship debut for Cambridgeshire against Lincolnshire. From 1949 to 1951, he represented the county in 3 Minor Counties matches. Williams joined Cumberland in 1964, where he represented the county in 6 Minor Counties matches. His final appearance for Cumberland came against the Lancashire Second XI. He also played Minor Counties cricket for the Nottinghamshire Second XI. [1]
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Lincolnshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty minor county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Lincolnshire.
Cumberland County Cricket Club is one of twenty minor county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. Originally, it represented the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland. It now represents the ceremonial county of Cumbria, as defined by the Lieutenancies Act 1997. Cumbria was first created in 1974 as an administrative county by combining the traditional counties of Cumberland and Westmorland along with Furness and a small part of north-west Yorkshire.
Williams also played a first-class match for the Combined Services against Nottinghamshire in 1961. [2] In his only first-class match, he scored took 5 wickets at a bowling average of 20.20, with best figures of 4/67. [3]
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The Combined Services cricket team represents the British Armed Forces. The team played at first-class level in England for more than forty years in the mid-twentieth century. Their first first-class match was against Gentlemen of England at Lord's in 1920, while their last was against Oxford University at Aldershot in 1964. Combined Services have continued to play cricket thereafter, albeit at minor level.
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