Sidney Adams

Sidney Clarke Adams (17 August 1904 – 24 March 1945) was an English first-class cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler who played 11 matches of first-class cricket for Northamptonshire between 1926 and 1932.[1]

Sidney Adams
Personal information
Full name
Sidney Clarke Adams
Born(1904-08-17)17 August 1904
Northampton, England
Died24 March 1945(1945-03-24) (aged 40)
near Hamminkeln, Germany
BattingRight-handed
BowlingLeg-break
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 11
Runs scored 158
Batting average 10.53
100s/50s 0/1
Top score 87
Balls bowled 359
Wickets 13
Bowling average 19.23
5 wickets in innings 1
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 6/32
Catches/stumpings 5/–
Source: CricketArchive, 6 December 2022

Adams was born in Northampton. His only first-class fifty, a knock of 87, came against Dublin University in a match in which he recorded his best bowling figures of 6 for 32 and took wickets with the first two balls he bowled in first-class cricket. The victim of his first delivery was the playwright Samuel Beckett.[2][3]

Gunner Adams died on 24 March 1945 near Hamminkeln, Germany, while serving with the 53rd (Worcestershire Yeomanry) Air Landing Light Regiment, Royal Artillery. He is buried at the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.[4]

References
  1. "Sidney Adams". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  2. "First-Class Wicket with First Ball". Association of Cricket Statisticians. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  3. Dhole, Pradip (26 July 2016). "Sidney Adams: The man who bowled a Nobel Laureate with his first ball". Cricket Country. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  4. Commonwealth War Graves Commission - 1146677 Gunner S C Adams


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