John Edward Timms (3 November 1906 – 18 March 1980) was an English

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er who played for

Northamptonshire Northamptonshire (; abbreviated Northants.) is a county in the East Midlands of England. In 2015, it had a population of 723,000. The county is administered by two unitary authorities: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. It is ...

. He was a right-handed middle order

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and a part time right arm medium pace bowler. Timms made his first-class debut in 1925, aged 18 and scored his maiden

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the following season. He passed 1,000 runs in a season on 11 occasions during his career with a best of 1629 runs in 1934 which he made at an

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of 34.65. That year he also made his highest score for Northamptonshire, 213 against Worcestershire at Stourbridge.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Timms, John 1906 births 1980 deaths English cricketers Northamptonshire cricketers North v South cricketers Place of birth missing