Charles Richard Morris (26 August 1880 – 10 August 1947) 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. Morris was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. Morris made his first-class debut for Nottinghamshire against Lancashire at

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in the

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. He made four further first-class appearances, all of which came in the

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, with his final appearance coming against

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at Trent Bridge. In his five first-class appearances for Nottinghamshire, he scored a total of 63 runs at an average of 9.00, with a high score of 24 not out. He died at

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, London, on 10 August 1947.

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