| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | William Shipman | |||
| Born | 1 March 1886 Ratby, England |
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| Died | 26 August 1943 (aged 57) Ratby, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1908–1921 | Leicestershire | |||
| First-class debut | 13 July 1908 Leicestershire v Essex | |||
| Last First-class | 30 July 1921 Leicestershire v Northamptonshire | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | FC | |||
| Matches | 111 | |||
| Runs scored | 2474 | |||
| Batting average | 14.30 | |||
| 100s/50s | 0/6 | |||
| Top score | 69 | |||
| Balls bowled | 16647 | |||
| Wickets | 366 | |||
| Bowling average | 27.21 | |||
| 5 wickets in innings | 16 | |||
| 10 wickets in match | 3 | |||
| Best bowling | 9/83 | |||
| Catches/stumpings | 82/– | |||
| Source: Cricket Archive, 16 March 2011 | ||||
William "Bill" Shipman (1 March 1886 – 26 August 1943) was an English cricketer who played over 100 first-class matches for Leicestershire. A right-arm fast bowler, he took 366 wickets during his 13-year career, at an average of 27.21. Shipman was a lower-order batsman and scored a total of 2,474 runs, with an average score of 14.30. Shipman played 110 of his 111 matches for Leicestershire between 1908 and 1914, but returned to make a single appearance for the county in the summer of 1921.
Shipman was born in the village of Ratby, Leicestershire on 1 March 1886.[1] He was one of three brothers who played cricket for Leicestershire; Alan Shipman played almost 400 matches for the county,[2] while Albert Shipman appeared in seven matches for the second XI during the 1914 season.[3] He died in Ratby on 26 August 1943, at the age of 57.[1]
Shipman began his Leicestershire career in the summer of 1908 and took four wickets on his County Championship debut in the drawn match against Essex in July of that year.[4] Throughout the next five seasons, he was an almost ever-present for the county. Shipman attained personal-best figures of 9–83 against Surrey in September 1910,[5] and went on to bowl three ten-wicket hauls in his career. His form for Leicestershire earned him appearances in two Test trial matches in the 1911 season; one for The Rest against the England Test side, and one for Gilbert Jessop's XI against a team selected by Plum Warner.[4] In August 1911, Shipman scored 69 runs, his highest ever in a first-class match, in the County Championship defeat to Warwickshire.[6] He scored half-centuries on six occasions during his career.[1]
For the 1915 season, Shipman was the club professional for Nelson Cricket Club in the Lancashire League. He scored 417 runs and took 77 wickets during his time at Seedhill.[7] In July 1921, after a seven-year absence from the Leicestershire team, Shipman returned to play his final first-class game for the county, taking six wickets in the win against Northamptonshire at Aylestone Road.[4]