William Spicer (18 May 1846 – 22 September 1892) was an English

cricketer 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 ...

. He was a left-arm roundarm medium-pace bowler who played for

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. He was born in

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and died in

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. Spicer made a single first-class appearance for the team during the 1870 season, against

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. Batting in the tailend, Spicer made 2 in the first innings and 14 in the second, and took second-innings bowling figures of 1–17.

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