Harold Walker (12 June 1918 – 12 November 2000) 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. Walker was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Desborough,

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. Walker made his only first-class appearance for

against

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in 1947. He opened the batting in this match, scoring a single run before being dismissed by

Bill Dines William James Dines (14 September 1916 – 14 June 1992) was an English cricketer. Dines was a right-handed batsman who bowled both right-arm off break and right-arm medium pace, though his medium pace bowler was his primary bowling style. ...

, while in their second-innings he scored 7 runs, before being dismissed by the same bowler. He died at

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, Northamptonshire on 12 November 2000.

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