William Adams (17 April 1885 – 6 April 1957) was an English

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

er. He was a left-handed batsman who played first-class cricket for

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. He was born in

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and died in Ashton,

. Adams had represented

on six occasions in the Minor Counties Championship from 1911 to 1913, making his debut as an opening order batsman but moving down the order upon several substandard batting performances. Adams did not play another cricket match until the 1920 season, when he made his County Championship debut at the age of 35 for Northamptonshire, batting extensively throughout the next two seasons, though the team would struggle for decent form in the two years in which he played. Following the close of the 1921 season, Adams spent five years out of the game, returning in an innings victory against

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in 1926.William Adams
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2022-10-10. Adams played regularly in the County Championship during 1927, though Northamptonshire had still made little progress in the league, finishing second bottom. Over the next two years, before making his exit from the game, Adams played just two first-class games, quitting in 1929. He scored two first-class centuries, with a best of 154 not out against

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Adams, William 1885 births 1957 deaths English cricketers Northamptonshire cricketers Buckinghamshire cricketers Cricketers from Buckinghamshire