- Michael Norman (Northamptonshire cricketer)
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Mick Norman Personal information Full name Michael Eric John Charles Norman Born 19 January 1933
Northampton, Northamptonshire, EnglandBatting style Right Handed Bowling style Right Arm Leg Break Role Batsman Domestic team information Years Team 1952–65 Northamptonshire 1966–75 Leicestershire Career statistics Competition FC OD Matches 363 120 Runs scored 17441 2412 Batting average 29.26 25.65 100s/50s 24/80 –/11 Top score 221* 90* Balls bowled 190 – Wickets 2 – Bowling average 82.00 – 5 wickets in innings – – 10 wickets in match – – Best bowling 2/0 – Catches/stumpings 161/– 30/– Source: CricketArchive, 16 June 2010 Michael Eric John Charles Norman (born, 19 January 1933, Northampton, Northamptonshire) was a professional Cricketer who spent his career between two clubs, Northamptonshire and Leicestershire.
Career
Norman's first-class debut, against India in 1952, coincided with that of Frank Tyson, who regarded the young Norman as 'another Dennis Brookes in the making.' It took several seasons for Norman to establish himself in the first team, but in 1959, Brookes' last season, the Northampton Grammer School old boy made his presence felt with just over 1,000 runs and a maiden Championship century against Warwickshire. The following year, where he established a long running opening partnership with Brian Reynolds, Norman 'improved immensely' according to the Annual Report, and the four summers between 1960 and 1963 brought him 7,150 County runs. His four hundreds in 1963 included 152 against Nottinghamshire at Northampton,[1] his highest for the County, but the next two seasons found him struggling for any degree of consistency. Against Glamorgan in 1964 he suffered the miserable experience of a 'king pair (falling to the first ball of each innings, on the same day, to Ossie Wheatley both times.[2] At the end of 1965, Norman made his move to Leicestershire and enjoyed a new lease of cricketing life. he played on until 1975, combining cricket with teaching in the last few years of his career, and adapted with conspicuous success to the rough-and-tumble of the John Player League which Leicestershire won, with the help of Newman in 1974.[3]
References
- ^ Scorecard: Northamptonshire v Nottinghamshire in 1963 CricketArchive. Retrieved 2010-06-19.
- ^ Scorecard: Glamorgan v Northamptonshire in 1964 CricketArchive. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ *Radd, Andrew (February 2001). 100 Greats: Northamptonshire County Cricket Club. Northampton: Tempus Publishing Limited. ISBN 0-7524-2195-6.
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