Walter Latter Cornford (25 December 1900 – 6 February 1964) 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 str ...

er. He was a

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who played in 4 Tests in New Zealand in 1930 and played county cricket for Sussex County Cricket Club. His nickname of Tich alluded to his height of barely five feet. His county career stretched from 1921 until the outbreak of the

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, but he made one further appearance in an emergency at the age of 46 in 1947.

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* England Test cricketers English cricketers Sussex cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers 1900 births 1964 deaths Players cricketers English cricketers of 1919 to 1945 People from Rother District Wicket-keepers Cricketers from East Sussex {{England-Test-cricket-bio-stub