Laurie Williams (cricketer)

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Laurie Rohan Williams (12 December 1968 – 8 September 2002) was a West Indian cricketer. Williams was 33 years old when he died; a car he was driving crashed into an oncoming bus.

Laurie Williams

Personal information
Full name	Laurie Rohan Williams
Born	(1968-12-12)12 December 1968 Saint Ann, Jamaica
Died	8 September 2002(2002-09-08) (aged 33) Portmore, Kingston, Jamaica
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium pace
International information
National side	West Indies
ODI debut (cap 77)	30 March 1996 v New Zealand
Last ODI	9 February 2001 v Australia
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1989–2002	Jamaica
Career statistics
Competition ODIs FC LA Matches 15 58 70 Runs scored 124 2,002 667 Batting average 11.27 24.71 14.50 100s/50s 0/0 3/7 0/0 Top score 41 135 44 Balls bowled 659 8,849 3,099 Wickets 18 170 79 Bowling average 30.88 23.17 27.84 5 wickets in innings 0 7 3 10 wickets in match 0 0 0 Best bowling 3/16 6/26 6/19 Catches/stumpings 8/– 34/– 16/–
Source: Cricket Archive, 25 October 2010

Williams made his first-class debut for Jamaica in February 1990 against England, opening the bowling. He bowled medium pacers, concentrating more on seam and swing as opposed to being fast.

Also handy with the bat, Williams made three first-class hundreds including a career-best 135 for Jamaica against the Windward Islands. That innings helped him to become the second-highest runmaker in the 1999–2000 Busta Cup.

Williams played 15 One Day Internationals (ODI) for West Indies, the large bulk of them coming in the 2000–01 Carlton Series in Australia. His best ODI bowling performance was perhaps his three wickets for 16 runs against New Zealand in his just his second match.

At the time of his death Williams had played 58 first-class matches for West Indies A and Jamaica. He scored 2,002 runs at 24.71 and took 170 wickets at 23.17. His best first-class bowling figures were six wickets for 26 runs, made in 1996–97. He died in a car accident in Kingston on 8 September 2002, aged 33.