Stanley Amor
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| Full name | Stanley Long Amor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
22 July 1887 Bath, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died |
7 August 1965 (aged 78) Bath, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-hand batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicketkeeper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1908-30 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 11 May 1908 Somerset v Lancashire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 11 July 1930 Somerset v Yorkshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Stanley Long Amor, born at Bath, Somerset on 22 July 1887 and died at Bath on 7 August 1965, played first-class cricket for Somerset irregularly for a period of more than 20 years.
A tail-end batsman and wicketkeeper, Amor played exactly half of his 26 first-class matches for Somerset in games at Bath, and his first-class career never took him further north than Worcester, though that visit brought him his highest first-class score of 21.[1][2]
Primarily, Amor was a club cricketer, acting as captain and wicketkeeper for Bath Cricket Club from 1914 to 1950, and president and chairman after that.[3] That he might have made the grade at a higher level of cricket is suggested by the fact that, in the 1922 and 1923 seasons, he figured in late-season festival cricket at Eastbourne and Hastings, playing for South v North, for the Royal Air Force (Ex-Service) side against the Rest of England, and for The Rest against Lord Cowdray's XI, alongside notable cricketing names such as Jack Hobbs, Frank Woolley, Percy Fender and the Gilligans.[4][5][6]
He was awarded the OBE.
References
- ↑ "First-class Matches played by Stanley Amor". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
- ↑ "Worcestershire v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
- ↑ Gavin Turner. A Century at Bath (2000 ed.). Broadcast Books. p. 65. ISBN 1-874092-92-3.
- ↑ "South v North". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
- ↑ "Royal Air Force v The Rest". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
- ↑ "Lord Cowdray's XI v The Rest". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2008-08-15.