Esmond Lewis | |
Country: | England |
Fullname: | Esmond Burman Lewis |
Birth Date: | 5 January 1918 |
Birth Place: | Shirley, Warwickshire, England |
Death Place: | Dorridge, West Midlands, England |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Role: | Wicket-keeper |
Club1: | Warwickshire |
Year1: | 1949 – 1958 |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 47 |
Runs1: | 553 |
Bat Avg1: | 12.56 |
100S/50S1: | 0/1 |
Top Score1: | 51 |
Deliveries1: | 0 |
Wickets1: | – |
Bowl Avg1: | – |
Fivefor1: | – |
Tenfor1: | – |
Best Bowling1: | – |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 93/26 |
Date: | 20 June |
Year: | 2014 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/16566.html ESPNcricinfo |
Esmond Burman Lewis (5 January 1918 – 19 October 1983) was an English wicket-keeper who played first-class cricket for Warwickshire from 1949 to 1958.
He began playing for the Warwickshire Second XI in 1936[1] but had to wait 13 years for his first-class debut. When he finally played, against Oxford University in 1949, he took eight catches and a stumping, setting a Warwickshire record.[2] However, he had to remain the county's reserve wicket-keeper, because the regular wicket-keeper, Dick Spooner, was a better batsman.
Lewis played as an amateur, and was selected three times to keep wicket for the Gentlemen against the Players.