William Holmes (29 October 1885 – 6 December 1951) 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. Holmes was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in

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, Nottinghamshire. Holmes made two first-class appearances for Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge in the

1919 County Championship 1919 was the 26th season of County Championship cricket in England and the first since 1914. The authorities had doubted if cricket would remain popular after a four-year break and the strain of war. It was decided that County Championship matc ...

against Yorkshire and Lancashire. He scored a total of 33 runs in his two matches, at an average of 16.50 and a high score of 19. In bowling, he took 4 wickets at a

bowling average In cricket, a player's bowling average is the number of runs they have conceded per wicket taken. The lower the bowling average is, the better the bowler is performing. It is one of a number of statistics used to compare bowlers, commonly use ...

of 26.25, with best figures of 2/50. He died in Doncaster, Yorkshire on 6 December 1951.

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