Walter Powys
Cricket Player
1849 – 1892
Who was Walter Powys?
Walter Norman Powys was an English 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. He played first-class for Cambridge University, Hampshire and the Marylebone Cricket Club from 1871 to 1879, playing a total of 27 first-class matches in total, 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.
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- Born
- Jul 28, 1849
Titchmarsh - Nationality
- England
- Died
- Jan 7, 1892
Nottingham
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on July 23, 2013
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