lastagainst deliveries death_date lastdate debutyear columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor debutagainst country death_place club fivefor batting name fullname debutfor birth_place column debutdate source type lastyear runs date wickets lastfor s/s matches article_title
derbyshire balls 132 28 september 1985 20 july 1946 1 6/0 1946 1947-1848 1949 21 july 1913 0 lancashire england worthing , sussex , england derbyshire worcestershire somerset 0 right-handed batsman roy genders william roy genders derbyshire dore , derbyshire , england first-class 13 july http://cricketarchive.co.uk/archive/players/3/3565/3565.html first-class 1949 245 1913 7 21 yes 3 somerset 0/1 10 roy genders

roy genders

william roy genders -lrb- 21 july 1913 - 28 september 1985 -rrb- was an english cricketer who played first-class cricket 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 -lrb- and extras -rrb- 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 .
