Richard Edmunds

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Richard Edmunds
England
Full name	Richard Harold Edmunds
Born	27 May 1970 (1970-05-27)
	Oakham, Leicestershire, England
Died	10 December 1989 (aged 19)
	Leicester, England
Role	Bowler
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Left arm medium-fast
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1989	Leicestershire
Career statistics
	First-class	List A
Matches	2	3
Runs scored	17	14
Batting average	5.66	7.00
100s/50s	0/0	0/0
Top score	17	9

Balls bowled	222	132
Wickets	3	2
Bowling average	37.66	59.00
5 wickets in innings	–	–
10 wickets in match	–	n/a
Best bowling	2/38	2/27
Catches/stumpings	0/–	0/–
As of 10 December 1989 Source: Cricinfo

Richard Harold Edmunds (May 27, 1970 — December 10, 1989) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-fast bowler who played for Leicestershire. He was born in Oakham and died in Leicester.

Edmunds made two first-class appearances during the 1989 season for the team, making a duck in his debut innings but scoring 17 in the second, against Gloucestershire. He also took two wickets during the match. Edmunds' second and final match was less impressive, as he was trapped LBW off the bowling of Chris Cowdrey for a duck in the only innings in which he batted.

Edmunds also made three List A appearances for the team during the season. Edmunds played in two Youth Test matches for England Young Cricketers against New Zealand in the summer of 1989, and three Youth One-Day Internationals during the same tour.

Edmunds died at the in 1989 at the age of just 19 years and 197 days old, "as a result of injuries received in a car crash near his home in Oakham on November 22".^[1]