Norman Partridge (cricketer), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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English cricketer
Date of Birth: 10-Aug-1900
Date of Death: 10-Mar-1982
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Norman Partridge (cricketer)
- Norman Ernest Partridge (10 August 1900–10 March 1982) was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Warwickshire.Partridge was born at Great Barr, Birmingham.
- He was selected by Wisden in 1919, while a schoolboy at Malvern College, as one its five Cricketers of the Year, there being no first-class cricket the previous year from which to pick outstanding performers because of the First World War.
- Partridge's record at Malvern as a right-hand batsman and, particularly, as a fast-medium in-swing bowler also led him, in 1919, to be chosen to play for the Gentlemen in the annual Gentlemen v Players match between the amateurs and the professionals at Lord's, then one of the highlights of the cricket season, but his school refused to allow him to take part.
- In 1936, towards the end of his career, he finally appeared in a Gentlemen v Players match, though it was an end-of-season festival affair at Folkestone rather than the Lord's fixture.After Malvern, he was at Pembroke College, Cambridge, for only one year, 1920, and won a Blue in the rain-ruined University Match.
- From 1921 to 1937, he played for Warwickshire, fairly regularly at first, latterly more seldom.
- He usually batted low in the batting order, but managed a career average of 18.62 and he frequently opened the bowling.
- In all first-class cricket, he scored more than 2,700 runs and took 393 wickets.Partridge died at Aberystwyth.
- His obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack recounts that there was some doubt about the legality of his bowling action, though he was never called for throwing.
- It says: "A batsman whom he had comprehensively bowled said indignantly to Tiger Smith behind the wicket, 'He threw that'.
- 'Yes,' said Tiger, 'and bloody well too'."
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