Bill Montgomery
Cricket Player
1878 – 1952
Who was Bill Montgomery?
William Montgomery played first-class cricket for Surrey and Somerset between 1901 and 1907. He was born at Staines, then in Middlesex and died at Peterborough.
Montgomery was a right-arm fast bowler and, in first-class cricket, a lower-order batsman, though he batted as an opener at times in other matches and in his games for Somerset he scarcely bowled at all. He was on the ground staff at The Oval from 1896 and appeared in Surrey second eleven matches from 1898, playing regularly in Minor Counties matches from 1899. He made his first-class cricket debut against W. G. Grace's London County in 1901, taking four wickets in the match, including Gilbert Jessop twice. But in the next game against Hampshire he failed to take a wicket and he disappeared from first-team cricket for two seasons. He returned to the Surrey side for five matches early in the 1903 season and in the first of these, a game ruined by rain against Warwickshire at Edgbaston he took four wickets for 17 runs, the best bowling figures of his career. There were seven further games for Montgomery at the end of the 1904 season, but he achieved little with either bat or ball, and joined Somerset for the 1905 season.
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- Born
- Mar 4, 1878
Staines-upon-Thames - Nationality
- England
- Died
- Nov 14, 1952
Peterborough
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on July 23, 2013
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