Walter Powys

Walter Norman Powys (28 July 1849 – 7 January 1892) was an English first-class cricketer. Powys was a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm roundarm fast.

Powys was the son of the Hon. Atherton Legh Powys and Charlotte Elizabeth Norman. He was admitted to Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1870, and re-admitted after interruptions in 1874 and 1877, finally graduating in 1879.^[1] He played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, Hampshire and the Marylebone Cricket Club from 1871 to 1879, playing 27 first-class matches, with his final first-class match in 1879 coming for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Oxford University. In addition Powys played first-class matches during that period for the Gentlemen of the North, the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players fixture, the Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club and the Orleans Club.

In his first-class career, Powys scored 244 runs at a batting average of 6.97, with a high score of 30. With the ball Powys took 98 wickets at a bowling average of 26.88, taking 6 five wicket haul and 3 ten wicket hauls in a match and with best figures of 9/42 in 1871 in his debut first-class match against the Marylebone Cricket Club. In the field Powys took 9 catches.

Powys died at Nottingham, Nottinghamshire on 7 January 1892.

Family[]

Powys' brothers Arthur and Richard both played first-class cricket, as did his uncle Arthur Crichton.

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External links[]

• Walter Powys at Cricinfo
• Walter Powys at CricketArchive
• Matches and detailed statistics for Walter Powys