Sidney Adams
Sidney Clarke Adams (17 August 1904 – 24 March 1945) was an English first-class cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler who played first-class cricket for Northamptonshire. He was born in Northampton and died near Hamminkeln, Germany. Adams' first-class career lasted from 1926 and 1932. His only first-class fifty, a knock of 87, came against Dublin University in a match in which he recorded his best bowling figures of 6 for 32 and took wickets with the first two balls he bowled in first-class cricket. The victim of his first delivery was the playwright Samuel Beckett.[1][2]
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| Born | 17 August 1904 Northampton, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 24 March 1945 (aged 40) near Hamminkeln, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right hand batsmen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Leg Break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gunner Adams died on 24 March 1945 serving with the Royal Artillery in Germany. He is buried at the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.[3]
Notes
- "First-Class Wicket with First Ball". Association of Cricket Statisticians. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
- Dhole, Pradip (26 July 2016). "Sidney Adams: The man who bowled a Nobel Laureate with his first ball". Cricket Country. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission - 1146677 Gunner S C Adams
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