Norman Harding (cricketer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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English cricketer
Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1916
Place of Birth: Woolston, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 25-Sep-1947
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Norman Harding (cricketer)
- Norman Walter Harding (19 March 1916 – 25 September 1947) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club from 1937 until shortly before his death in 1947.
- He died in Abingdon-on-Thames.Harding was born at Woolston, Hampshire near Southampton in 1916 and educated at Reading School in Berkshire.
- He played for Berkshire County Cricket Club between 1934 and 1936, including making 16 appearances in the Minor Counties Championship and moved to play professionally at Kent in the 1937 season.
- In his first competitive match for Kent, a Second XI fixture against Wiltshire, he took 18 wickets, nine in each Wiltshire innings, a feat Wisden describes as "extraordinary" and "regarded as unique in county cricket".He made his first-class debut for the county in August 1937 against Gloucestershire at Dover, going on to make 83 first-class appearances for Kent, playing regularly after his first season.
- During World War II Harding played some club cricket in the Lancashire League for Rishton Cricket Club in 1941 and appeared for an Anti-Aircraft Command side and an England XI in 1943.
- He made three appearances for Berkshire in matches during 1945 and played for an Under 33s side in one of the eleven first-class matches possible in England after the end of the war before rejoining Kent in 1946.Harding was considered to be a key member of Kent's bowling attack either side of the war.
- He took 69 wickets in 1939 and 68 in 1947 and was perhaps the fastest Kent bowler since Bill Bradley who had bowled at the turn of the century.
- He died in the 1947 polio epidemic which swept the United Kingdom after less than a week in hospital at Abingdon-on-Thames.
- He was 31.
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