Richard Williams (Worcestershire cricketer)

Infobox cricketer biography
playername = Richard Williams
female =


country = England
fullname = Richard Harry Williams
nickname =
living =
dayofbirth = 23
monthofbirth = 4
yearofbirth = 1901
placeofbirth = Brockmoor, Staffordshire
countryofbirth = England
dayofdeath = 19
monthofdeath = 12
yearofdeath = 1982
placeofdeath = Stourbridge
countryofdeath = England
heightft =
heightinch =
heightm =
batting = Left-handed
bowling =
role =
club1 = Worcestershire
year1 = 1923—1932
deliveries = balls
columns = 1
column1 = FC
matches1 = 37
runs1 = 713
bat avg1 = 11.14
100s/50s1 = 0/3
top score1 = 81
deliveries1 = 0
wickets1 = 0
bowl avg1 = -
fivefor1 = 0
tenfor1 = 0
best bowling1 = -
catches/stumpings1 = 17/0
date = 1 August
year = 2008
source = http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/33/33910/33910.html

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".Obituary. "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack" 1984.]

Williams' career began very badly. In his first game, against Derbyshire, he made 4 and 2* in 1923. [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/10/10748.html |title=Worcestershire v Derbyshire in 1923 |accessdate=2008-08-01 |publisher=CricketArchive] He did not appear again until 1925, when in his first nine innings of the season he made just 13 runs.cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/cgi-bin/ask_the_player_oracle.cgi?playernumber=33910 |title=Player Oracle |accessdate=2008-08-01 |publisher=CricketArchive] 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. [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/11/11535.html |title=Worcestershire v Nottinghamshire in 1925 |accessdate=2008-08-01 |publisher=CricketArchive]

This innings was a false dawn, however, and in Williams' next 30 innings he never made more than 41.By now it was August 1926, but then — admittedly after the match was dead— he produced what was to be his career-best innings: 81 against Nottinghamshire (again) at Trent Bridge. [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/12/12077.html |title=Nottinghamshire v Worcestershire in 1926 |accessdate=2008-08-01 |publisher=CricketArchive] Another lengthy run of failures followed, and although he made an unbeaten 76 against Yorkshire in early May 1928, [cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/12/12615.html |title=Worcestershire v Yorkshire in 1928 |accessdate=2008-08-01 |publisher=CricketArchive] 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.

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References

* [http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/33/33910/33910.html Richard Wiliams] from CricketArchive
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