Esmond Burman Lewis (5 January 1918 – 19 October 1983) was an English wicket-keeper who played first-class cricket for Warwickshire from 1949 to 1958. He began playing for the Warwickshire Second XI in 1936 but had to wait 13 years for his first-class debut. When he finally played, against Oxford University in 1949, he took eight catches and a stumping, setting a Warwickshire record.'' Wisden'' 1984, p. 1203. However, he had to remain the county's reserve wicket-keeper, because the regular wicket-keeper, Dick Spooner, was a better batsman. Lewis played as an

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, and was selected three times to keep wicket for the Gentlemen against the Players.

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Esmond Lewis at CricketArchive
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis, Esmond 1918 births 1983 deaths English cricketers Warwickshire cricketers Gentlemen cricketers D. R. Jardine's XI cricketers Wicket-keepers People from the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull Cricketers from Warwickshire