Ernest Norton
Cricket Player
1889 – 1972
Who was Ernest Norton?
Ernest Willmott Norton, registered at birth as Ernest Willmott was an English cricketer who played eight first-class matches in the early 1920s: two for Warwickshire and then six for Worcestershire.
Norton made his debut for Warwickshire against Leicestershire at Edgbaston at the end of June 1920, making an unbeaten 26 from number ten in his only innings. Immediately afterwards, he appeared against Sussex at the same venue, but only 58 overs were possible and his only contribution was five wicketless overs for 19 runs.
His next first-class appearance was not for almost two years, and when he did play again in June 1922 it was for a very weak Worcestershire side destined to finish bottom of the County Championship. His second game for his new county, against Northamptonshire at Worcester, brought him his first wicket and indeed what were to remain his best bowling figures of 3-74.
Norton played four more times for Worcestershire, but the county lost them all: indeed, in his eight-match first-class career he was never part of a winning side. His final game was his only appearance of 1923, at Gravesend against Kent, and in an eight-wicket defeat his ten overs went without reward.
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