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Full name Roy Palmer
Born July 12, 1942, Devizes, Wiltshire
Current age 65 years 310 days
Major teams Somerset
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Other Umpire
Height
5 ft 11 in
Education Southbroom Secondary Modern, Devizes
Relations Brother - KE Palmer,Nephew - GV Palmer
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
100
50
Ct
St
First-class
74
110
32
1037
84
13.29
0
1
25
0
List A
43
28
4
198
26
8.25
0
0
7
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
74
10179
5439
172
6/45
31.62
3.20
59.1
4
0
List A
43
2209
1495
67
5/18
5/18
22.31
4.06
32.9
3
1
0
Career statistics
First-class span
1965 - 1970
List A span
1966 - 1970
Umpiring statistics
Test debut
England v Pakistan at Manchester, Jul 2-7, 1992 scorecard
Last Test
England v Australia at Nottingham, Jul 1-6, 1993 scorecard
Test matches
2
Test statistics
ODI debut
India v Zimbabwe at Leicester, Jun 11, 1983 scorecard
Last ODI
England v West Indies at The Oval, May 26, 1995 scorecard
ODI matches
8
ODI statistics
Profile
Roy Palmer was a right-arm opening bowler for Somerset whose career only lasted four full seasons,and on retiring he became a groundsman, where he would probably have stayed. "I was happy as a groundsman until the council made me a group groundsman, which meant that I lost my own pitch and had to go off trimming verges here, there and everywhere." Encouraged by his brother, he became a first-class umpire in 1979 and soon made his mark, travelling the circuit not from hotel to hotel but in a mobile home. He stood in his first Test in 1992 and became embroiled in a fierce row with Javed Miandad after it was claimed he had tossed Aquib Javed's sweater to him after he warned the bowler for intimidatory bowling. Palmer stood in one more Test the following summer, as well as eight ODIs.
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