Bill Andrews (cricketer)

William Harry Russell Bill Andrews was an English cricketer who played for Somerset. He was a rightarm fastmedium pace bowler and useful middleorder righthanded batsman. He played 226 matches for Somerset between 1930 and 1947 and took 750 wickets at an average of 23.38 and scored 4,833 runs at an average of 15.59.

William Harry Russell Andrews was born in Swindon the son of William and Betty Andrews. Bettys maiden name was Russell hence his third name. He had a younger brother Jack Andrews who playedmatches as a wicketkeeper for Hampshire between 1937 and 1947, and also a sister known as Betty who was also a cricketer, being captain of a cricket team in Southern Rhodesia. In Swindon his father was a publican but the family moved to WestonsuperMare in 1921 where Andrews saw the visiting Australians, sold scorecards and worked the scoreboard. Andrews left school at the age of fourteen and worked as an office boy in a solicitors office where his fine handwriting was perhaps his greatest asset. There was tragedy for the family in 1925 when his mother died in childbirth. He played his cricket for the Weston club and learned more about cricket when Arthur Wellard lodged with the Andrews family, having moved to the county in 1927.

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