Joseph Rimmer
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Joseph Rimmer is a former English
cricket
er who played for Derbyshire
in 1949.
Rimmer was born at Langwith, Derbyshire
. He began playing for the Derbyshire second XI during the 1948 season. During the 1949 season
he played three first team matches when he took wickets in all the matches and as a tail ender was only out once. His debut in the County Championship was in June against Sussex, and he only lost his wicket when he was run out against New Zealand. A season when there were four powerful bowlers in the Derbyshire team gave Rimmer little chance to show his bowling credentials and he returned to the Second XI where he played in the 1950 season.
Rimmer was a right-arm medium-pace bowler and took five first class wickets with an average of 52.80 and a best performance of 2 for 71. He was a right-handed batsman and played three innings in three first class matches in which he made one run altogether.
England
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er who played for Derbyshire
Derbyshire County Cricket Club
Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...
in 1949.
Rimmer was born at Langwith, Derbyshire
Langwith, Derbyshire
Langwith is a close group of four villages crossing the Derbyshire-Nottinghamshire border, on the river Poulter only about two miles from Warsop, and about four miles from Bolsover, on the A632 road, south of Whaley Thorns....
. He began playing for the Derbyshire second XI during the 1948 season. During the 1949 season
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1949
Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1949 represents the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for seventy-eight years. It was their forty-fifth season in the County Championship and they won six matches in the County Championship to finish in fifteenth place.-1949...
he played three first team matches when he took wickets in all the matches and as a tail ender was only out once. His debut in the County Championship was in June against Sussex, and he only lost his wicket when he was run out against New Zealand. A season when there were four powerful bowlers in the Derbyshire team gave Rimmer little chance to show his bowling credentials and he returned to the Second XI where he played in the 1950 season.
Rimmer was a right-arm medium-pace bowler and took five first class wickets with an average of 52.80 and a best performance of 2 for 71. He was a right-handed batsman and played three innings in three first class matches in which he made one run altogether.