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 11 matches of first-class cricket for Northamptonshire between 1926 and 1932.[1]
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| Full name | Sidney Clarke Adams | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 August 1904 Northampton, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 24 March 1945 (aged 40) near Hamminkeln, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Leg-break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 6 December 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Adams was born in Northampton. 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.[2][3]
Gunner Adams died on 24 March 1945 near Hamminkeln, Germany, while serving with the 53rd (Worcestershire Yeomanry) Air Landing Light Regiment, Royal Artillery. He is buried at the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Sidney Adams". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
- ^ "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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