Joseph Alan Ormrod (born 22 December 1942) is a former English first-class cricketer who played for

Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see H ...

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. A right-handed opening batsman, Ormrod was a key member in Worcestershire's back to back Championship winning sides of 1964 and 1965. He passed 1,000 runs in a season on 12 occasions with a best of 1,535 runs in 1978. He toured Pakistan with MCC Under-25 in 1966-67. Ormrod scored a total of 21,753 runs for Worcestershire and is their only batsman to have scored a century in both innings of a match against Somerset, which he did in 1980. He finished his career with a brief stint at Lancashire. Ormrod's early cricketing exploits were in Scotland as a reliable and stylish opening batsman for the Kirkcaldy High School 1st XI (average 35.1 in the 1959 season).Kirkcaldy High School Magazine 1959 p.47

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