Richard Lewis (cricketer, born 1947)
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| Full name | Richard Victor Lewis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 August 1947 Leg break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1979–1983 | Minor Counties West | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1977–1986 | Dorset | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1967–1976 | Hampshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 4 January 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Richard Victor Lewis (born 6 August 1947) is a former English
batsman
.
Biography
Born on 6 August 1947 in
List A debut against Yorkshire
.
Lewis spent nine years with Hampshire, during which he played 103 first-class matches and was a member of Hampshire's 1973 County Championship winning squad. He scored 3282 runs for Hampshire at an average of 18.97, with a highest score of 136.[1] He made two centuries and thirteen fifties, and took 65 catches. In List A cricket Lewis played 82 matches, scoring 1,173 runs at an average of 18.04, including five fifties and a highest score of 79. At the end of the 1976 County Championship he left Hampshire.
In 1977 Lewis began playing
Minor Counties South in the Benson and Hedges Cup. From 1980 to 1983 Lewis represented the Minor Counties in Benson and Hedges Cup matches. In 1981 he represented the team in his final first-class match against the touring Sri Lankans
.
Lewis toured Bangladesh with the MCC in 1980–81.[2]
In 1983 Lewis made his Dorset List A debut in the 1983
NatWest Trophy against Essex. His final List A match came in the same competition in 1986 against Somerset
. At the end of the 1986 Minor Counties Championship season he retired from representative cricket.
References
- ^ Richard Lewis batting by team
- ^ Wisden 1982, p. 968.
External links
- Richard Lewis on Cricinfo
- Richard Lewis on CricketArchive
