Richard Williams (cricketer)

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Richard Williams (born August 8, 1969) was an English cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper. During his eleven years in first-class cricket, he played for Gloucestershire.

Having made his Second XI championship debut in 1988, where he participated in a three-day draw against Kent. Participating in the second team for the next three years, he would make his breakthrough appearing for Gloucestershire against Glamorgan in July 1990, though he went without a batting or bowling appearance throughout the match, having seen the game shrunk by force to a single innings per side.

Appearing extensively throughout the second XI championship over the next seven years, he would wait until 2001 until he attempted to get a regular first team place, but this was hard to come by with so many other faces in the team. He retired from first-class cricket in 2001 having seen eleven years as a second-team wicket-keeper for an ever-strengthening Gloucestershire side.