Sidney Clarke Adams (17 August 1904 – 24 March 1945) was an English

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er. He was a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler who played 11 matches of first-class cricket for

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between 1926 and 1932. Adams was born in

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. His only first-class fifty, a knock of 87, came against

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in a match in which he recorded his best bowling figures of 6 for 32 and took wickets with the first two balls he bowled in first-class cricket. The victim of his first delivery was the playwright

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. Gunner Adams died on 24 March 1945 near

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, Germany, while serving with the 53rd (Worcestershire Yeomanry) Air Landing Light Regiment,

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. He is buried at the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.Commonwealth War Graves Commission - 1146677 Gunner S C Adams
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* 1904 births 1945 deaths Military personnel from Northampton English cricketers Cricketers from Northampton London Counties cricketers Burials in Germany Northamptonshire cricketers Royal Artillery soldiers British Army personnel killed in World War II Worcestershire Yeomanry soldiers {{UK-army-bio-stub