Roy Genders, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRoy Genders
English cricketer
Date of Birth: 21-Jul-1913
Place of Birth: Dore, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 28-Sep-1985
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Roy Genders
- William Roy Genders (21 July 1913 – 28 September 1985) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1946, for Worcestershire from 1947 to 1948 and for Somerset in 1949. Genders was born in Dore, then in Derbyshire.
- He played several games for Derbyshire in 1945 before first-class cricket was resumed after the war.
- He remained with Derbyshire in the 1946 season, appearing thrice with little success.
- During the next 1947 and 1948 seasons he played five times for Worcestershire, and it was here that he recorded his best performances.
- He made 55 not out against his old club Derbyshire, and took all his three wickets for the county in a single match against Gloucestershire; the most notable of his victims was probably "one-Test wonder" George Emmett. Genders' last two matches in first-class cricket came for Somerset in the 1949 seasons, but his scores of 3, 22, 0 and 4 were unimpressive and he never played county cricket again.
- His 22 came in Somerset's second innings against Cambridge University in June 1949.
- In this match, all eleven Somerset players (and Extras) reached double figures, but none went on to score a half-century. Genders was a right handed batsman and played 19 innings in ten first-class matches with an average of 16.33 and a top score of 55 not out.
- He took three first-class wickets with an average of 32.66 and a best performance of 2 for 43.Genders wrote two books about cricket, one a history of Worcestershire County Cricket Club and the other concerning English league cricket.
- He also wrote a great many books on the subject of gardening. Genders died at the age of 72 in Worthing, Sussex.
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