Malcolm Williams (born 16 August 1949) is a former Guyanese

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 a single first-class match for Essequibo in the final of the 1980–81 inter-county Jones Cup. Williams was born in Vergenoegen in what was then

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(now part of Guyana's Essequibo Islands-West Demerara region). He was one of two players from Vergenoegen in the Essequibo side, the other being

Kamroze Mohammed Kamroze Mohammed (born 6 January 1951) is a former Guyanese cricketer who played a single first-class match for Essequibo in the final of the 1980–81 inter-county Jones Cup. Born in Vergenoegen in what was then British Guiana (now part of ...

. The match was played against

Berbice Berbice is a region along the Berbice River in Guyana, which was between 1627 and 1792 a colony of the Dutch West India Company and between 1792 to 1815 a colony of the Dutch state. After having been ceded to the United Kingdom of Great Britain ...

at the

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(on the Atlantic coast). Williams, a bowler and tail-end

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, failed to take a wicket during the game, bowling five overs in Berbice's first innings and two in their second. He scored three runs while batting in Essequibo's first innings, and made 15 runs in the second innings before being dismissed by spinner Jerry Angus, who had him stumped by

Milton Pydanna Milton Robert Pydana (born 27 January 1950) is a cricketer who played three One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the West Indies. A middle or lower-order right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper, Pydana played first-class cricket for Guyana for 17 sea ...

, a future

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ODI player.Essequibo v Berbice
Jones Cup 1980/81 (Final) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 December 2014. Berbice won the match by nine wickets in what was Essequibo's only first-class match – only the final of the three-team Jones Cup (later the Guystac Trophy) was accorded first-class status, and Essequibo made the final only once, having defeated

Demerara Demerara ( nl, Demerary, ) is a historical region in the Guianas, on the north coast of South America, now part of the country of Guyana. It was a colony of the Dutch West India Company between 1745 and 1792 and a colony of the Dutch state fro ...

in an earlier match. The scorecards of the non-first-class matches played by Essequibo are not available before the late 1990s, and it is therefore uncertain how Williams played for Essequibo (if at all) in earlier matches.Other matches played by Essequibo
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 December 2014.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Malcolm 1949 births Living people Essequibo cricketers Guyanese cricketers People from Essequibo Islands-West Demerara