Graham Norris
Graham Walter "Bay" Norris was an English cricketer active from 1925 to 1926 who played for Northamptonshire (Northants). He was born at Steane Park near Brackley, Northamptonshire on 17 October 1905 and died in the Horton Hospital at Banbury, Oxfordshire on 6 December 1933. He appeared in five first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm medium pace. He scored 38 runs with a highest score of 16 and took seven wickets with a best performance of three for 48.[1] Educated at Eton College and Hertford College, Oxford, he was a director of the family brewery. A successful rider in point-to-points and under National Hunt Rules he died as the result of injuries received when his horse fell at Birmingham Races a week before his death.[2]
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- ^ Graham Norris at CricketArchive
- ^ Buckingham Advertiser, 9 December 1933, p.5
- 1905 births
- 1933 deaths
- People educated at Eton College
- Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford
- People from Brackley
- English cricketers
- Northamptonshire cricketers
- Deaths by horse-riding accident in England
- Sport deaths in England
- English cricket biography, 1900s birth stubs