Stanley Amor
 | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Stanley Long Amor | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 July 1887 Bath, Somerset, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 7 August 1965 (aged 78) Bath, Somerset, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicketkeeper | ||||||||||||||
| Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1908–1930 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||
| FC debut | 11 May 1908 Somerset v Lancashire | ||||||||||||||
| Last FC | 11 July 1930 Somerset v Yorkshire | ||||||||||||||
| Career statistics | |||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
Source: CricketArchive, 9 August 2008 | |||||||||||||||
Stanley Long Amor (22 July 1887 – 7 August 1965) was an English first-class cricket for Somerset irregularly for a period of more than 20 years.
A tail-end batsman and wicketkeeper, Amor played exactly half of his 26 first-class matches for Somerset in games at Bath, and his first-class career never took him further north than Worcester, though that visit brought him his highest first-class score of 21.[1][2]
Primarily, Amor was a club cricketer, acting as captain and wicketkeeper for Bath Cricket Club from 1914 to 1950, and president and chairman after that.[3] That he might have made the grade at a higher level of cricket is suggested by the fact that, in the 1922 and 1923 seasons, he figured in late-season festival cricket at Eastbourne and Hastings, playing for South v North, for the Royal Air Force (Ex-Service) side against the Rest of England, and for The Rest against Lord Cowdray's XI, alongside notable cricketing names such as Jack Hobbs, Frank Woolley, Percy Fender and the Gilligans.[4][5][6]
He was awarded the OBE.
References
[edit]- ^ "First-class Matches played by Stanley Amor". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 15 August 2008.
- ^ "Worcestershire v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 9 August 2008.
- ^ Gavin Turner (June 2001). A Century at Bath (2000 ed.). Broadcast Books. p. 65. ISBN 1-874092-92-3.
- ^ "South v North". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 15 August 2008.
- ^ "Royal Air Force v The Rest". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 15 August 2008.
- ^ "Lord Cowdray's XI v The Rest". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 15 August 2008.