Walter Vizard

Walter Vizard
Personal information
Full name Walter Oswald Vizard
Born 16 November 1861
Bellary, Madras Presidency,
British Raj
Died 10 January 1929 (aged 67)
Bayswater, London, England
Batting style Right-handed
Role Wicket-keeper
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1897 Hertfordshire
18821890 Gloucestershire
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 18
Runs scored 256
Batting average 8.53
100s/50s /
Top score 49*
Balls bowled
Wickets
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match
Best bowling
Catches/stumpings 11/1
Source: Cricinfo, 4 September 2011

Walter Oswald Vizard (16 November 1861 10 January 1929) is a former English cricketer. Vizard was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Bellary, Madras Presidency in the British Raj (today India). He was educated at Clifton College.

Vizard made his first-class debut for Gloucestershire against Middlesex in 1882. He made seventeen further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Surrey in 1890.[1] In his eighteen first-class matches, he scored 256 runs at an average of 8.53, with a high score of 49 not out. Behind the stumps he made 11 catches and made a single stumping.[2]

By 1891, Vizard had moved to Hertfordshire and was enlisted in the 1st (Hertfordshire) Volunteer Battalion, the Bedfordshire Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant.[3] He held the rank of Lieutenant in 1895, in September of that year he was promoted to Captain.[4] By 1896, he was in partnership as a solicitor with a Charles Lothian Nicholson based in London, however in that year the partnership was dissolved by mutual consent.[5] He was also in partnership as a solicitor with a Lionel Monk Smith, but this partnership too was dissolved by mutual consent in 1897.[6] In 1897, he made a single appearance for Hertfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship against Norfolk.[7] By 1902, he was in partnership with a Henry Theodore Monro, but the partnership was dissolved by mutual consent in that year.[8]

He died in Bayswater, London on 10 January 1929.

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