Sidney Adams
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Born | Northampton, England | 17 August 1904||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 24 March 1945 near Hamminkeln, Germany | (aged 40)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right hand batsmen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Leg Break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
Gunner Adams died on 24 March 1945 serving with the 53rd (Worcestershire Yeomanry) Air Landing Light Regiment, Royal Artillery in Germany. He is buried at the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.[3]
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- ^ "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
External links[]
- Sidney Adams at Cricket Archive
- 1904 births
- 1945 deaths
- English cricketers
- London Counties cricketers
- British Army personnel of World War II
- Northamptonshire cricketers
- Royal Artillery soldiers
- British Army personnel killed in World War II
- Worcestershire Yeomanry soldiers
- English cricket biography, 1900s birth stubs
- British Army personnel stubs