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| Full name | William Snowden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 September 1952 Whiston, Lancashire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1972–1975 | Cambridge University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,6 September 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William Snowden (born 27 September 1952) is an English former cricketer.
Snowden was born in September 1952 at Whiston,Lancashire. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School,Crosby, [1] before going up to Emmanuel College,Cambridge. [2] While studying at Cambridge,he made his debut in first-class cricket for Cambridge University against Leicestershire at Fenner's in 1972. He played first-class cricket for Cambridge until 1975,making 35 appearances. [3] Playing as a batsman,he scored 1,315 runs in his 35 first-class matches for Cambridge,at an average of 21.20 and a high score of 108 not out. [4] This score,one of three centuries he made,came against Kent in 1973. [5] He also made two first-class appearances for the combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities cricket team,playing against the touring New Zealanders in 1973,and the touring Indians in 1974. [3] In addition to playing first-class cricket while at Cambridge,he also made ten appearances in List A one-day cricket. The first eight of these came for Cambridge University,with four appearances apiece in the 1972 and 1974 Benson &Hedges Cup, [6] with Snowden scoring 88 runs with a high score of 44. [7] He also made two List A appearances for the Combined Universities cricket team in the 1975 Benson &Hedges Cup. [3] After graduating from Cambridge he became a schoolteacher,teaching geography at Harrow School from 1981–2014.
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