Norman Michael McVicker was an English cricketer.
22 Facts About Norman McVicker
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Norman McVicker played five seasons with Warwickshire, winning the 1972 County Championship and taking 300 first-class wickets.
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Norman McVicker retired at the end of the 1976 season, but came out of retirement in 1977 to play one-day cricket for Leicestershire, before retiring again at the end of that season.
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Norman McVicker spent his childhood in Hamilton Road in Whitefield, where his house overlooked the cricket ground used by Stand Cricket Club.
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Norman McVicker first played first-class cricket in 1965, when he was selected to for the Minor Counties representative team against the touring South Africans at Jesmond.
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Norman McVicker played another first-class match for the team in 1967 against the touring Pakistanis at Swindon.
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Norman McVicker debuted in List A one-day cricket for Lincolnshire in the 1966 Gillette Cup against Hampshire.
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Norman McVicker played minor counties cricket for Lincolnshire until 1968, making 64 appearances in the Minor Counties Championship.
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Norman McVicker debuted for Warwickshire in first-class cricket against Cambridge University.
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Norman McVicker's first season was a success, with 74 first-class wickets at an average of 20.50, including what were to be his career-best first-class figures of 7 for 29 in his fifth County Championship match against Northamptonshire.
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Norman McVicker played his first List A one-day match for Warwickshire in the 1969 Player's County League against Sussex.
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Norman McVicker suffered a loss of form in 1970, with 34 wickets at 42.91, though he remained consistent in one-day cricket, taking 21 wickets at 22.19.
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Norman McVicker regained his form in 1971, with 74 first-class wickets at 26.24.
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Norman McVicker was Warwickshire's leading wicket-taker in 1972, when they won the County Championship, with 66 wickets at 23.80.
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Norman McVicker lost his place in the side in 1973, despite taking 54 wickets at 24.53.
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Norman McVicker was released by Warwickshire at the end of that season.
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Norman McVicker debuted for Leicestershire against Cambridge University at Fenner's, with McVicker having a successful debut season with 61 first-class wickets at 22.24.
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Norman McVicker was particularly effective as a bowler in one-day cricket in 1975, taking 41 wickets at 16.29.
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Norman McVicker took 45 first-class wickets in Leicestershire's Championship winning season, as well as scoring three back-to-back half centuries, which proved crucial to Leicestershire's Championship triumph.
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Norman McVicker retired after the 1976 season, in which he had taken 41 first-class wickets and 15 one-day wickets.
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Norman McVicker was one of ten members of Leicestershire's first County Championship winning team in 1975 to have a road in Leicester named after him by the city council.
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Jack Birkenshaw, Graham McKenzie and Mick Norman McVicker missed out as there were already roads using their surnames.