Alan Ormrod | |
Birth Place: | Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Bowling: | Right-arm offbreak |
Columns: | 2 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 500 |
Runs1: | 23,206 |
Bat Avg1: | 30.90 |
100S/50S1: | 32/113 |
Top Score1: | 204 |
Deliveries1: | 1,794 |
Wickets1: | 25 |
Bowl Avg1: | 43.76 |
Fivefor1: | 1 |
Tenfor1: | 0 |
Best Bowling1: | 5/27 |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 400/0 |
Column2: | List A |
Matches2: | 286 |
Runs2: | 6,398 |
Bat Avg2: | 25.18 |
100S/50S2: | 2/34 |
Top Score2: | 124 |
Deliveries2: | 153 |
Wickets2: | 4 |
Bowl Avg2: | 33.50 |
Fivefor2: | 0 |
Tenfor2: | 0 |
Best Bowling2: | 3/51 |
Catches/Stumpings2: | 78/0 |
Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31807/31807.html CricketArchive |
Date: | 20 April |
Year: | 2019 |
Joseph Alan Ormrod (born 22 December 1942) is a former English first-class cricketer who played for Worcestershire and Lancashire.
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 1,000 runs in a season on 12 occasions with a best of 1,535 runs in 1978. He toured Pakistan with MCC Under-25 in 1966–67.
Ormrod scored a total of 21,753 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 (average 35.1 in the 1959 season).[1]