William Slater was an English professional cricketer

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...

. His brother was John Slater

John Slater (cricketer)

John Slater was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1825 to 1829. He was mainly associated with Sussex and made 7 known appearances in first-class matches....

 (1795-unknown), also of Sussex, who played in 7 matches from 1825 to 1829.

Career

He was mainly associated with Sussex and he made 29 known appearances in first-class

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

matches from 1815 to 1829 .

Slater was a left-handed batsman (LHB) and an occasional wicket-keeper.

External sources

• CricketArchive record