Alan Ormrod

Cricket Player

1942 –

71

Who is Alan Ormrod?

Joseph Alan Ormrod is a former English first class cricketer who played with Worcestershire.

A right-handed opening batsman, Ormrod was a key member in Worcestershire's back to back Championship winning sides of 1964 and 1965. He passed 1000 runs in a season on 12 occasions with a best of 1535 runs in 1978.

Ormrod scored a total of 21753 runs for Worcestershire and is their only batsman to have scored a century in both innings of a match against Somerset, which he did in 1980. He finished his career with a brief stint at Lancashire.

Ormrod's early cricketing exploits were in Scotland as a reliable and stylish opening batsman for the Kirkcaldy High School 1st XI.

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Born
Dec 22, 1942
Nationality
  • England

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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