Laurie Rohan Williams (12 December 1968 – 8 September 2002) was a

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er. Williams was 33 years old when he died; a car he was driving crashed into an oncoming bus. Williams made his first-class debut for

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in February 1990 against

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, opening the bowling. He bowled medium pacers, concentrating more on seam and swing as opposed to being fast. Also handy with the bat, Williams made three first-class hundreds including a career-best 135 for Jamaica against the

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. That innings helped him to become the second-highest runmaker in the 1999–2000

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. Williams played 15

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(ODI) for West Indies, the large bulk of them coming in the 2000–01 Carlton Series in Australia. His best ODI bowling performance was perhaps his three wickets for 16 runs against

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in his just his second match. At the time of his death Williams had played 58 first-class matches for West Indies A and Jamaica. He scored 2,002 runs at 24.71 and took 170 wickets at 23.17. His best first-class bowling figures were six wickets for 26 runs, made in 1996–97. He died in a car accident in

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on 8 September 2002, aged 33.

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