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67 6 18,533 125 15 january 2 131 / - 0 / - first-class list a - - 25/92 0/1 362 5 - - 2014 http://cricketarchive.com/archive/players/30/30379/30379.html cricket archive right-handed batsman cricket_no_pic . png norman horner
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norman horner

norman frederick horner -lrb- 10 may 1926 -- 24 december 2003 -rrb- was an english first-class cricketer , who played two games for yorkshire county cricket club in 1950 , before moving to warwickshire county cricket club in 1951 .
a right-handed batsman , he made 18,533 runs at 29.79 in his 362-game career .
born in queensbury , west yorkshire , horner was a neat , dapper batsman , who formed a powerful opening partnership with fred gardner , and scored a thousand runs in every season up to 1964 .
m.j.k. smith commented that `` norman would have run fred 's legs off him if he had been allowed '' .
he went down the order in 1958 , when the mcc asked warwickshire to promote smith to develop him for a possible england opening spot .
horner scored quickly , and enjoyed his best three seasons from 1959 to 1961 .
on a flat oval pitch in 1960 he scored a career-best 203 not out , and put on 377 with billy ibadulla for the first wicket on the first day , then the highest unbroken opening partnership in cricket history .
he was quick in the covers and took 131 catches .
he retired in 1965 to concentrate on landscape gardening and his work as a cricket groundsman .
horner died in driffield , yorkshire in december 2003 , at the age of 77 .
