Bill_Bourne_(cricketer)

Bill Bourne (cricketer)

Bill Bourne (cricketer)

Barbadian cricketer

William Anderson Bourne (born 15 November 1952) is a Barbadian former first-class cricketer.

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An opening bowler and lower-order batsman, Bourne was one of the leading bowlers for the West Indies youth team on their unbeaten tour of England in 1970.[1] He played at first with Barbados and then with Warwickshire during the 1970s. After leaving Warwickshire he moved to Zambia, and represented East Africa in the 1982 ICC Trophy.[2]

Bourne scored his only first-class century against Sussex in 1976, when he went to the wicket with the score at 174 for 7 and added 203 for the eighth wicket with Geoff Humpage.[3] Four days earlier, he had taken his best first-class bowling figures of 6 for 47 against Cambridge University.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Wisden 1971, p. 844.
  2. [2]
    Swain, Martin. "Up for the cup; Bourne for World crack". The Free Library. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  3. [3]
    Wisden 1977, pp. 595–96.
  4. [4]
    "Cambridge University v Warwickshire 1970". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 July 2019.


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