John Walters (cricketer)
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John Walters is a former English
cricket
er who played for Derbyshire
between 1977 and 1980.
Walters first played for Derbyshire in the 1977 season which saw the team finish seventh in the County Championship and continued in the 1978 season
. He was part of the Derbyshire team which reached the Benson & Hedges Cup
semi-finals of 1979 and continued to play for the Derbyshire team in limited overs cricket until 1980.
Walters was a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. Though he debuted as a tailending batsman, the presence of Philip Russell
as a tailender and a forceful bowler changed Walters' role to that of a lower-order player.
.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er who played for Derbyshire
Derbyshire County Cricket Club
Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...
between 1977 and 1980.
Walters first played for Derbyshire in the 1977 season which saw the team finish seventh in the County Championship and continued in the 1978 season
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1978
Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1978 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for one hundred and seven years. They reached the final of the Benson & Hedges Cup. In the County Championship, they won three matches to finish fourteenth in their seventy fourth...
. He was part of the Derbyshire team which reached the Benson & Hedges Cup
Benson & Hedges Cup
The Benson & Hedges Cup was a one-day cricket competition for first-class counties in England and Wales that was held from 1972 to 2002, one of cricket's longest sponsorship deals....
semi-finals of 1979 and continued to play for the Derbyshire team in limited overs cricket until 1980.
Walters was a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. Though he debuted as a tailending batsman, the presence of Philip Russell
Philip Russell (cricketer)
Philip Edgar Russell is a former English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1965 and 1985.Russell was born at Ilkeston, Derbyshire. He began playing in the Derbyshire Second XI in 1964, and made his first-class debut at the end of the 1965 season, in a victory against Nottinghamshire...
as a tailender and a forceful bowler changed Walters' role to that of a lower-order player.
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External links
- John Walters at Cricket Archive