Henry Williams (cricketer)

Henry Smith Williams (born 11 June 1967), is a retired South African cricketer. He played seven One Day Internationals for South Africa. Williams was a right-arm seam bowler and, after retiring, he became the bowling coach at Boland.

Henry Williams
Personal information
Full name
Henry Smith Williams
Born (1967-06-11) 11 June 1967
Pniel, Cape Province, South Africa
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast-medium
International information
National side
ODI debut24 January 1999 v West Indies
Last ODI19 March 2000 v India
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1990/91Western Province
1992/93Impalas
1992/93–2003/04Boland
Career statistics
Competition ODI FC LA
Matches 7 89 109
Runs scored 8 765 123
Batting average 8.00 8.13 3.96
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0
Top score 7 49 15
Balls bowled 329 17,021 5,296
Wickets 9 276 122
Bowling average 25.33 24.26 29.22
5 wickets in innings 0 10 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0
Best bowling 3/38 6/27 4/35
Catches/stumpings 2/– 24/– 17/–
Source: CricInfo, 30 January 2019
Medal record
Representing  South Africa
Men's Cricket
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place1998 Kuala LumpurList-A cricket

He and Herschelle Gibbs were banned from international cricket for six months in 2000 for match fixing. In the hearing, he admitted accepting money from Hansie Cronje to underperform in a One Day International in India. He had been bribed to concede more than 50 runs off his 10 overs, but sustained a legitimate injury and so bowled only 11 balls.[1]

Although his suspension was only for six months, he was well into his 30s and, despite playing first-class cricket until 2003/04, he never returned to international cricket.

In February 2020, Williams was named in South Africa's squad for the Over-50s Cricket World Cup in South Africa.[2][3] However, the tournament was cancelled during the third round of matches, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4]

See also

References

  1. "Saqlain's hat-trick". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  2. "2020 over-50s world cup squads". Over-50s Cricket World Cup. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  3. "Over-50s Cricket World Cup, 2019/20 - South Africa Over-50s: Batting and bowling averages". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  4. "Over-50s World Cup in South Africa cancelled due to COVID-19 outbreak". Cricket World. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
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