Walter Latter Cornford (25 December 1900 – 6 February 1964) was an English

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er. He was a

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who played in 4

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in New Zealand in 1930 and played

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for

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. His nickname of Tich alluded to his height of barely five feet. His county career stretched from 1921 until the outbreak of the

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, but he made one further appearance in an emergency at the age of 46 in 1947.

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* England Test cricketers English cricketers Sussex cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers 1900 births 1964 deaths Players cricketers English cricketers of 1919 to 1945 20th-century English sportsmen People from Rother District Wicket-keepers Cricketers from East Sussex {{England-Test-cricket-bio-stub