Bot: robot: Create/update articles. If there is a mistake please report on my talk page.

2022-03-26T22:07:33Z

robot: Create/update articles. If there is a mistake please report on my talk page.

← Older revision		Revision as of 03:37, 27 March 2022
Line 69:		Line 69:
	[[Category:English solicitors]]		[[Category:English solicitors]]
	[[Category:Wicket-keepers]]		[[Category:Wicket-keepers]]
			[[Category:Military personnel of British India]]

->NovemBot: /* External links */add :Category:Wicket-keepers (NovemBot Task 2)

2021-12-16T17:02:28Z

External links: add Category:Wicket-keepers (NovemBot Task 2)

New page

{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| country = England
| fullname = Walter Oswald Vizard
| nickname =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1861|11|16|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Bellary]], [[Madras Presidency]], <br>[[British Raj]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1929|1|10|1861|11|16|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Bayswater]], [[London]], [[England]]
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| heightm =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| role = [[Wicket-keeper]]
| family =
| club1 = [[Hertfordshire County Cricket Club|Hertfordshire]]
| year1 = 1897
| clubnumber1 =
| club2 = [[Gloucestershire County Cricket Club|Gloucestershire]]
| year2 = 1882–1890
| clubnumber2 =
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 18
| runs1 = 256
| bat avg1 = 8.53
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 49[[not out|*]]
| deliveries1 = –
| wickets1 = –
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = 11/1
| date = 4 September
| year = 2011
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22227.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Walter Oswald Vizard''' (16 November 1861 – 10 January 1929) was an English [[cricket]]er. Vizard was a right-handed [[Batsman (cricket)|batsman]] who fielded as a [[wicket-keeper]]. He was born in [[Bellary]], [[Madras Presidency]] in the [[British Raj]] (today [[India]]). He was educated at [[Clifton College]].<ref>"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p56: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948</ref>

Vizard made his [[first-class cricket|first-class]] debut for [[Gloucestershire County Cricket Club|Gloucestershire]] against [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex]] in 1882. He made seventeen further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against [[Surrey County Cricket Club|Surrey]] in 1890.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33523/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Walter Vizard|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=4 September 2011}}</ref> In his eighteen first-class matches, he scored 256 runs at an [[batting average (cricket)|average]] of 8.53, with a high score of 49 [[not out]]. Behind the [[stumps]] he made 11 [[catch (cricket)|catches]] and made a single [[stumping]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33523/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Walter Vizard|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=4 September 2011}}</ref>

By 1891, Vizard had moved to [[Hertfordshire]] and was enlisted in the 1st (Hertfordshire) Volunteer Battalion, the [[Bedfordshire Regiment]] as a [[2nd Lieutenant]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26176 |date=1891-06-26 |page=3381 }}</ref> He held the rank of [[Lieutenant]] in 1895, in September of that year he was promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26665 |date=1895-09-24 |page=5303 }}</ref> By 1896, he was in partnership as a [[solicitor]] with a Charles Lothian Nicholson, son of General [[Lothian Nicholson]], based in [[London]], however in that year the partnership was dissolved by mutual consent.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26782 |date=1896-04-07 |page=2176 }}</ref> He was also in partnership as a solicitor with a Lionel Monk Smith, but this partnership too was dissolved by mutual consent in 1897.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26888 |date=1897-09-03 |page=4953 }}</ref> In 1897, he made a single appearance for [[Hertfordshire County Cricket Club|Hertfordshire]] in the [[Minor Counties Championship]] against [[Norfolk County Cricket Club|Norfolk]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33523/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Walter Vizard|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=4 September 2011}}</ref> By 1902, he was in partnership with a Henry Theodore Monro, but the partnership was dissolved by mutual consent in that year.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27403 |date=1902-02-04 |page=741 }}</ref>

He died in [[Bayswater]], [[London]] on 10 January 1929.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22227.html Valter Vizard] at [[ESPNcricinfo]]
*[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33523/33523.html Walter Vizard] at CricketArchive

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vizard, Walter}}
[[Category:1861 births]]
[[Category:1929 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Bellary]]
[[Category:People educated at Clifton College]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Gloucestershire cricketers]]
[[Category:Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment officers]]
[[Category:Hertfordshire cricketers]]
[[Category:English solicitors]]
[[Category:Wicket-keepers]]

Walter Vizard - Revision history

Bot: robot: Create/update articles. If there is a mistake please report on my talk page.

->NovemBot: /* External links */add :Category:Wicket-keepers (NovemBot Task 2)