William George Gethin (4 May 1877 – 4 November 1939) was an English

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 game for

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in 1921, when already aged 44. He scored 19 and 1, and held two catches. Gethin had earlier played for

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in the Birmingham Premier League. In August 1900 he took 8/33 against West Bromwich Dartmouth. His elder brother

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played four times for Worcestershire at the turn of the twentieth century.

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* * 1877 births 1939 deaths English cricketers Worcestershire cricketers Cricketers from Kidderminster {{England-cricket-bio-1870s-stub