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William shakespeare of cricket: William Shakespeare. If these names came, then the idea of cricket will not come at all. Because William Shakespeare is known only for his plays and poems written by him, but, if we tell you that a William Shakespeare was also in cricket? Yes, it is exactly the same. Meaning, we are not going to tell you about the cricket record of William Shakespeare, who spent their time with books. Rather, we will talk about them, whose full name is William Harold Nelson Shakespeare and who has really played cricket.
William Shakespeare- Not a playwright, cricketer
Meaning name is one but the person is different. One William Shakespeare won the heart of the world with his written plays and the other spent his time on the cricket field. But there is a difference of more than 300 years in the birth date of these two. William Shakespeare, who became a poet and playwright, was born in April 1564. While cricket playing William Shakespeare was born on 24 August 1893. Yes, apart from the name, if there was one more thing in both Shakespeare, then it was their country- England.
William Shakespeare’s cricket career
Now the question is, William Shakespeare, a right -handed batsman, played how many matches played in his career, from which team and how was his cricket career? William Shakespeare could never play cricket at the international level. His career was limited to the first class, where he scored 789 runs in 44 innings of 26 matches at an average of 19.72. Shakespeare scored 4 half -centuries during this period. His best score was 67 not out. In the name of bowling, he simply bowled 5 balls in the entire first class career, on which he did not take any wicket.
William Shakespeare played all the matches for Vurcester. He played his first first class match in 1919. Whereas in 1931 he played his last match. His career was 12 years old.