Ian Thwaites (4 March 1943 – 30 September 2015) was an English physician and cricketer. He played twenty-two first-class matches for Cambridge University Cricket Club between 1963 and 1964.[1][2]

Ian Thwaites
Personal information
Full name
Ian Guy Thwaites
Born(1943-03-04)4 March 1943
Brighton, Sussex, England
Died30 September 2015(2015-09-30) (aged 72)
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 29 June 2016

Biography

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Horsham Cricket Club

Ian Thwaites was born in 1943 in Brighton, the youngest child of four to Guy Thwaites, a local general practitioner (GP).[3] He was educated at Eastbourne College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied Natural Sciences.[4] He played cricket for Sussex Second XI and Cambridge University, and in 1964 won a Blue.[3] Following training in medicine at Cambridge and St Thomas’ Hospital, he became a doctor and worked in Africa before moving to Horsham, where he worked for over 40 years, first as a GP, and then as a private sports physician.[3] The cricketer Christopher Martin-Jenkins, in his autobiography CMJ – A Cricketing Life, describes being treated by him.[5] Thwaites was a member of Horsham Cricket Club, where he played cricket for many years, and he was a co-founder of Keep Southwater Green.[3][4]

His son, Guy, also played first-class cricket for Cambridge University.[6]

He died from prostate cancer on 30 September 2015.[3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Ian Thwaites". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Ian Thwaites". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Tributes to 'gentle and thoughtful' cricket loving and countryside campaigning Southwater doctor". www.westsussextoday.co.uk. 14 October 2015. Archived from the original on 27 January 2022. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Old Eastbornian". 2015. p. 68.
  5. ^ Martin-Jenkins, Christopher (2012). CMJ: A Cricketing Life. Simon and Schuster. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-85720-083-9.
  6. ^ "Player Profile: Guy Thwaites". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
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