- Guy Willatt
Guy Willatt (
May 7 ,1918 —June 11 ,2003 ) was an Englishcricket er. He was a left-handed batsman and a right-arm slow bowler.Willatt's career began at Cambridge University, where he played two years prior to the beginning of the Second World War. While this brought about almost exactly seven years wait between the end of the 1939 season and his next appearance. He moved to Nottinghamshire in 1946 to participate in the County Championship for the first season following the Second World War.
He performed for one further year for Cambridge University before being drafted in to Derbyshire towards the end of the 1947 season. However, he only made one appearance in the County Championship before moving to Nottinghamshire, who finished the season in joint eleventh place in the County Championship table, while Willatt scored two centuries and one fifty.
Willatt played four times for Scotland during 1949 and 1950, and moved to Derbyshire in 1951. An unpredictable, middle-order batsman during his first season at the club, which saw him post the lowest first-class average of his career, he came back to form over the next three years, in which he played consistently for the team.
1955 was a fairly barren year, though Derbyshire finished in midtable, and in his exit season, 1956, as he was shuffled further up the order, he played very little. Willatt played cricket one final time for Ireland, in 1961.
Willat played as an amateur alongside his teaching career, working at the
Edinburgh Academy , Repton, and Heversham Grammar School, Westmorland, and was headmaster atPocklington School , Yorkshire, from 1966 until his retirement in 1980.Willatt's son, Jonathan, played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1989.
External links
* [http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/27/27194/27194.html Guy Willatt] at Cricket Archive
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200306/ai_n9298934 Appreciation by Michael Henderson in The Spectator]
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030614/ai_n12686132 Obituary in The Independent]
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1141513.ece Obituary in The Times]
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