Full name Esmond Burman Lewis Name Esmond Lewis | Role Wicket-keeper Batting style Right-handed | |
Died 19 October 1983(1983-10-19) (aged 65)Dorridge, West Midlands, England |
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Esmond Burman Lewis (5 January 1918 – 19 October 1983) was an English wicket-keeper who played first-class cricket for Warwickshire from 1949 to 1958.
He began playing for the Warwickshire Second XI in 1936 but had to wait 13 years for his first-class debut. When he finally played, against Oxford University in 1949, he took eight catches and a stumping, setting a Warwickshire record. However, he had to remain the county's reserve wicket-keeper, because the regular wicket-keeper, Dick Spooner, was a better batsman.
Lewis played as an amateur, and was selected three times to keep wicket for the Gentlemen against the Players.
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