Roy Genders

Infobox Old Cricketer


nationality = English
country = England
country abbrev = Eng
picture = Cricket_no_pic.pngname = Roy Genders
batting style = Right-handed batsman
bowling style = unknown
FCs = 10
FC runs = 245
FC bat avg = 16.33
FC 100s/50s = 0/1
FC top score = 55*
FC balls = 132
FC wickets = 3
FC bowl avg = 32.66
FC 5s = 0
FC 10s = 0
FC best bowling = 2-43
FC catches/stumpings = 6/0
debut date = 13 July
debut year = 1946
last date = 21 July
last year = 1949
source = http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/13349.html CricInfo

William Roy Genders (21 July 1913 - 28 September 1985) was an English cricketer who played ten first-class games just after the Second World War. Despite his short career, he nevertheless managed to appear for three counties: Derbyshire, Worcestershire and Somerset.

After several games for Derbyshire in 1945 prior to the resumption of first-class cricket, Genders remained with that county in 1946, appearing thrice with very little success. During the next two seasons he played five times for Worcestershire, and it was here that he recorded his best performances. He made 55 not out against his old club Derbyshire, and took all his three wickets for the county in a single match against Gloucestershire; the most notable of his victims was probably "one-Test wonder" George Emmett.

Genders' last two matches in first-class cricket came for Somerset in 1949, but scores of 3, 22, 0 and 4 were less than impressive and he never played county cricket again. His 22 came in Somerset's second innings against Cambridge University in June 1949: all eleven Somerset players (and Extras) reached double figures, but none went on to score a half-century.

Genders wrote two books about cricket, one a history of Worcestershire CCC and the other concerning English league cricket."Obituaries in 1985." Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1986.] He also wrote a great many books on the subject of gardening.

Genders was born in Dore, Derbyshire; he died at the age of 72 in Worthing, Sussex.

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* [http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3565/3565.html Statistical summary] from CricketArchive