Geoffrey Victor Othen (12 March 1933 – September 2015) was an English

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er. Othen was a right-handed

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who bowled right-arm

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. He was born in Shrewsbury,

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, where he was educated at the Priory Grammar School for Boys.Published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Othen made his debut for

in the 1957 Minor Counties Championship against Staffordshire. Othen played

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cricket for Shropshire from 1957 to 1976, which included 143 Minor Counties Championship appearances. He captained Shropshire to their first, and so far only, Minor Counties Championship title in 1973. After retiring from the game in 1976 he was chairman of the club until 1985. He played club cricket for Monkmoor (Shrewsbury),

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and Wem. He made his List A debut against

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in the 1974 Gillette Cup. In this match, took 4 wickets for the cost of 34 runs from 12 overs. He made a further List A appearance against

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in the

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. He bowled 8 wicket-less overs in this match, for the cost of 35 runs. Othen was also a keen

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player who served as captain in 1996-97 and president in 2008 of Shrewsbury Golf Club. He worked as a telephone engineer. He and his wife Rosemary, who died in 1993, had a daughter and a son. He died of

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in September 2015 at Severn Hospice in Bicton, Shrewsbury and was cremated at Emstrey Crematorium, Shrewsbury.

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