Norman Kilner
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Norman Kilner was a first class cricketer who played 69 matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1919 to 1923 and 330 matches for Warwickshire CCC from 1924 to 1937. He also appeared in first class cricket for the Players (1924-1928), the North of England (1928) and Sir L Parkinson's XI (1933).
He was a tough, professional right handed batsman but scored only 1,253 runs for Yorkshire at just 18.98 with two centuries to his name. He fared better after his move to Edgebaston, scoring 16,075 runs for Warwickshire at 31.89. Overall, in 403 first class matches, he scored 17,522 runs at 30.36 with 25 centuries and a best of 228 at Worcester in 1935, during which he scored a hundred before lunch. A fine fielder, he took 184 catches and one wicket for 83 with his eccentric bowling. He once bowled three balls of an over right handed, and three balls of it with his left.
His brother, Roy Kilner played Test cricket for England while nephew, Irving Washington, also played for Yorkshire as a left handed bat. He was a familiar figure at Edgebaston after his retirement, often commenting on the match in his broad Yorkshire accent, in company with Tiger Smith.
