Maurice Raymond Hallam (10 September 1931 — 1 January 2000) was an English
first-class cricket
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er for
Leicestershire
Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...
. He was a right-handed opening batsman.
Hallam made his first-class debut for Leicestershire in 1950 and played his last game in 1970. He captained the county in 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1968.
Records
* A good slips fielder, Hallam took 56 catches in 1961 which remains a record for most catches in a season for Leicestershir
* He scored a century in each innings of a match on 3 occasions, the most ever for the count
* He is one of only four Leicestershire batsmen to make more than 2000 runs in a season, scoring 2096 in 196
* His 23662 runs is second only to Les Berry for most ever runs for Leicestershire.
External links
*
Maurice Hallam at Cricket Archive
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1931 births
2000 deaths
Leicestershire cricketers
Leicestershire cricket captains
English cricketers
Players cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
A. E. R. Gilligan's XI cricketers
Non-international England cricketers
Cricketers from Leicester