Hamish More | |
Country: | Scotland |
Fullname: | Hamish Keith More |
Birth Date: | 30 May 1940 |
Birth Place: | Abbeyhill, Edinburgh, Scotland |
Death Place: | Edinburgh, Scotland |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Club1: | Scotland |
Year1: | 1966 – 1980 |
Columns: | 2 |
Column1: | First class |
Matches1: | 18 |
Runs1: | 639 |
Bat Avg1: | 18.79 |
100S/50S1: | 0/2 |
Top Score1: | 89 |
Deliveries1: | – |
Wickets1: | – |
Bowl Avg1: | – |
Fivefor1: | – |
Tenfor1: | – |
Best Bowling1: | – |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 30/2 |
Column2: | List A |
Matches2: | 3 |
Runs2: | 32 |
Bat Avg2: | 32.00 |
100S/50S2: | 0/0 |
Top Score2: | 16 |
Deliveries2: | – |
Wickets2: | – |
Bowl Avg2: | – |
Fivefor2: | – |
Tenfor2: | – |
Best Bowling2: | – |
Catches/Stumpings2: | 0/– |
Hidedeliveries: | true |
Date: | 4 March 2017 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/scotland/content/player/25303.html ESPNcricinfo |
Hamish Keith More (30 May 1940 – 2 January 2022)[1] was a Scottish cricketer who represented Scotland in first-class cricket from 1966 to 1976 and in List A cricket in 1980.[2]
A right-handed batsman, More made his highest first-class score against Surrey in 1969, when he opened the second innings and scored 89 out of a team total of 166.[3] Against the touring Pakistan national team in 1971 he set a Scottish catching record that still stands when he took seven catches in the match, six of them off the spin bowling of Jimmy Allan.[4] [5]
More toured Bangladesh with MCC in 1978–79. In all, he played more than 350 games for MCC.[1] After retiring from league cricket at the age of 53 he played midweek and Sunday matches for various teams till his seventies.[6]
He died in Edinburgh on 2 January 2022, at the age of 81.[7] [8]