Roy Genders

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Roy Genders England (Eng)

Batting style	Right-handed batsman
Bowling type	unknown
First-class record
Matches	10
Runs scored	245
Batting average	16.33
100s/50s	0/1
Top score	55*
Balls bowled	132
Wickets	3
Bowling average	32.66
5 wickets in innings	0
10 wickets in match	0
Best Bowling	2-43
Catches/Stumpings	6/0
First class debut: 13 July 1946 Last first class game: 21 July 1949 Source: CricInfo

William Roy Genders (21 July 1913 - 28 September 1985) was an English cricketer who played ten first-class games just after the Second World War. Despite his short career, he nevertheless managed to appear for three counties: Derbyshire, Worcestershire and Somerset.

After several games for Derbyshire in 1945 prior to the resumption of first-class cricket, Genders remained with that county in 1946, appearing thrice with very little success. During the next two seasons he played five times for Worcestershire, and it was here that he recorded his best performances. He made 55 not out against his old club Derbyshire, and took all his three wickets for the county in a single match against Gloucestershire; the most notable of his victims was probably "one-Test wonder" George Emmett.

Genders' last two matches in first-class cricket came for Somerset in 1949, but scores of 3, 22, 0 and 4 were less than impressive and he never played county cricket again. Outside cricket, he wrote two books, one a history of Worcestershire CCC and the other concerning English league cricket.^[1]

Genders was born in Dore, Derbyshire; he died at the age of 72 in Worthing, Sussex.

[edit] Trivia

In Somerset's second innings against Cambridge University in June 1949, all eleven Somerset players (and Extras) reached double figures, but none went on to score a half-century. (Genders, batting at three, made 22.)