Bill Fowler
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Bill Fowler (born March 13, 1959) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler.
Fowler's cricketing career started at Worcestershire's Second XI in 1979 before he found himself out of the side at the end of the season, thought ineffective as a middle-order batsman after his final-game duck against Yorkshire.
Fowler moved to New Zealand in the early part of 1980 in order to play for Northern Districts, who he represented until 1982. He moved to Derbyshire in 1983 in time for that year's County Championship. A regular fixture in the first team, he played seventeen out of the twenty-four games of the season, and the next season, was a middle-order fixture as he recorded his career-best score of 116 against Glamorgan.
Altering between England in the Northern Hemisphere summer and New Zealand in theirs, he did not play another County Championship game after the 1985 season. Fowler played in the Shell Trophy in the last two years of his first-class career.
During his career, Fowler played as a lower-middle order batsman, and maintained a strong one-day bowling average of under 24.
[edit] External links
- Bill Fowler at Cricket Archive
