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English sportsman

William Fox
Personal information
Full nameWilliam Victor Fox
Born(1898-01-08)8 January 1898
Middlesbrough, England
Died17 February 1949(1949-02-17) (aged 51)
Withington, Manchester, England
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1923–1932Worcestershire
Career statistics
Competition FC
Matches 163
Runs scored 6,654
Batting average 26.61
100s/50s 11/26
Top score 198
Balls bowled 209
Wickets 2
Bowling average 68.50
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 1–13
Catches/stumpings 89/0
Source: CricketArchive, 1 August 2008

William Victor Fox (8 January 1898 – 17 February 1949) was an English sportsman who played both cricket and football to a high level.

Cricket

Fox made his first-class debut for Worcestershire in May 1923, making 5 and 7 in an innings defeat against Hampshire at Southampton. However, thereafter he contributed some useful innings throughout the season and ended not far short of a thousand runs, including his maiden century, an unbeaten 178 against Northamptonshire. His average that summer was a useful 32.70, but his career came to an enforced (though temporary) end at the end of the season when Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) ruled that his qualification was invalid.

Fox's cricketing career resumed in 1926, and from then until 1930 he was a regular in the Worcestershire team. In a usually weak batting side, Fox performed well, making his thousand runs in 1926, 1928 and 1929, and missing out by a single run in 1927. His best season was 1929; in this year he made 1,457 first-class runs at an average of 31, with two hundreds and seven fifties. It was in 1929 also that Fox hit his career-best innings: 198 against Warwickshire at Edgbaston.

His form fell away in 1930, and after hitting 134 against Lancashire at the start of July Fox made only one further half-century in 15 innings that year. He played not at all in 1931, and although he appeared four times in 1932 he did nothing of any note in those games.

He was a strictly occasional bowler, sending down fewer than 35 overs in his career and claiming just two first-class wickets. His victims were both substantial cricketers: Yorkshire's George Macaulay in 1926 and Leicestershire's Alan Shipman in 1929.

Fox died at the early age of 51 following an operation, leaving Mrs Frances Vera Fox and son Kenneth Fox.

Football

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Fox played football for Middlesbrough, Wolves and Newport County.

Notes

  1. "Hampshire v Worcestershire in 1923". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 August 2008.
  2. "Northamptonshire v Worcestershire in 1923". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 August 2008.
  3. ^ Obituary. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1950.
  4. "First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by William Fox". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 August 2008.
  5. "Warwickshire v Worcestershire in 1929". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 August 2008.
  6. "Lancashire v Worcestershire in 1930". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 August 2008.
  7. "Player Oracle". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 August 2008.
  8. "Yorkshire v Worcestershire in 1926". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 August 2008.
  9. "Worcestershire v Leicestershire in 1929". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 August 2008.

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