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]

Sidney Adams
Personal information
Born(1904-08-17)17 August 1904
Northampton, England
Died24 March 1945(1945-03-24) (aged 40)
near Hamminkeln, Germany
BattingRight hand batsmen
BowlingLeg Break
International information
National side
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 11
Runs scored 158
Batting average 10.53
100s/50s -/1
Top score 87
Balls bowled 359
Wickets 13
Bowling average 19.23
5 wickets in innings 1
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 6/32
Catches/stumpings 5/-
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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]

Notes
  1. "First-Class Wicket with First Ball". Association of Cricket Statisticians. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  2. Dhole, Pradip (26 July 2016). "Sidney Adams: The man who bowled a Nobel Laureate with his first ball". Cricket Country. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  3. Commonwealth War Graves Commission - 1146677 Gunner S C Adams
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