Walter Powys Cricketer
Walter Norman Powys (28 July 1849 – 7 January 1892) 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 incredible 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. Powys died at Nottingham, Nottinghamshire on 7 January 1892.
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- http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/18596.html
- http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6807/6807.html
- http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6807/statistics_lists.html