Bernard William Cornelius (16 March 1919 – 26 August 1987) was an English

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er who played for Northamptonshire. He was born in

Northampton Northampton () is a market town and civil parish in the East Midlands of England, on the River Nene, north-west of London and south-east of Birmingham. The county town of Northamptonshire, Northampton is one of the largest towns in England; ...

and died in Towcester. Cornelius made a single first-class appearance, during the 1947 season, against

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...

. Coming in at number 3, he scored a duck in the first innings in which he batted, and 9 runs in the second innings. Northamptonshire won the match by 6 wickets but Cornelius never played again.Scorecard: Leicestershire v Northamptonshire in 1947
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