Full name Brian Robert Edrich 1967 Minor Counties Batting style Left-hand batsman Name Brian Edrich | Role Cricket Player 1967–70 Oxfordshire | |
Born 18 August 1922 ( 1922-08-18 ) Cantley, Norfolk, England Relations WJ Edrich, EH Edrich, GA Edrich (brothers), JH Edrich (cousin), JS Edrich (nephew) Died May 31, 2009, Padstow, United Kingdom | ||
Bowling style Right-hand off break | ||
Brian Robert Edrich (18 August 1922 – 31 May 2009) was an English cricketer. He was a left-handed middle-order batsman and a right-arm off break bowler. He also acted as assistant coach of Glamorgan. Born in Cantley, Norfolk, he died at Padstow in Cornwall, aged 86.
He was cricket coach at St Edward's School, Oxford.
His three brothers, Eric, Geoff and Bill, and his cousin, John, all played first-class cricket.
Playing career
Edrich played 181 first-class matches for Kent and Glamorgan between 1947 and 1956, scoring 5,529 runs. He later played for Oxfordshire and the Minor Counties between 1957 and 1970.
His most prolific season was 1951, in which he passed 1,000 runs for the only time in his career, finishing with 1,267, including two hundreds and seven fifties. His highest score in first-class cricket was 193 not out, made in 1949 against Sussex. During the innings, he shared a record partnership of 161 with Fred Ridgway for the ninth wicket. This score, however – 51% of the total of 379 – was made in a losing cause. In the same season, he had his best bowling return, 7/41 in the first innings against Hampshire, dismissing seven of the top eight batsmen, a match Kent won by just 26 runs. As a bowler, his role was mostly a supporting one and he never achieved 50 wickets in a season, his best being 49, also in 1951.