Henry Williams (cricketer)

Henry Smith Williams (born 11 June 1967), is a retired South African cricketer. He played seven One Day Internationals for South Africa. Williams was a right arm seam bowler and after retiring he became the bowling coach at Boland.

Henry Williams
Personal information
Full nameHenry Smith Williams
Born (1967-06-11) 11 June 1967
Pniel, Cape Province, South Africa
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast-medium
International information
National side
ODI debut24 January 1999 v West Indies
Last ODI19 March 2000 v India
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
Boland
Impalas
Western Province
Career statistics
Competition ODI FC LA
Matches 7 89 109
Runs scored 8 765 123
Batting average 8.00 8.13 3.96
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0
Top score 7 49 15
Balls bowled 329 17,021 5,296
Wickets 9 276 122
Bowling average 25.33 24.26 29.22
5 wickets in innings 0 10 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0
Best bowling 3/38 6/27 4/35
Catches/stumpings 2/– 24/– 17/–
Source: CricInfo, 30 January 2019

He and Herschelle Gibbs were banned from international cricket for six months in 2000 for match fixing. In the hearing he admitted to accepting money from Hansie Cronje to underperform in a One Day International in India. He had been bribed to concede more than 50 runs off his 10 overs but he ended up getting a legitimate injury and thus only bowled 11 balls.[1]

Although his suspension was only for 6 months, he was well into his 30s and despite playing first class cricket until 2003/04 he never returned to international cricket.

In February 2020, he was named in South Africa's squad for the Over-50s Cricket World Cup in South Africa.[2][3] However, the tournament was cancelled during the third round of matches due to the coronavirus pandemic.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Saqlain's hat-trick". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  2. "2020 over-50s world cup squads". Over-50s Cricket World Cup. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  3. "Over-50s Cricket World Cup, 2019/20 - South Africa Over-50s: Batting and bowling averages". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  4. "Over-50s World Cup in South Africa cancelled due to COVID-19 outbreak". Cricket World. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
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