John Walters (born 7 August 1949) is a former 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 Derbyshire between 1977 and 1980. Walters first played for Derbyshire in the 1977 season which saw the team finish seventh in the County Championship and continued in the 1978 season. He was part of the Derbyshire team which reached the

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semi-finals of 1979 and continued to play for the Derbyshire team in limited overs cricket until 1980. Walters was a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. Though he debuted as a tailend batsman, the presence of Philip Russell as a tailender and a forceful bowler changed Walters' role to that of a lower-order player.

Personal life

Walters' father was footballer

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at Cricket Archive {{DEFAULTSORT:Walters, John 1949 births English cricketers Living people Derbyshire cricketers Place of birth missing (living people)