Misplaced Pages

Hamish Keith More (30 May 1940 – 2 January 2022) was a Scottish cricketer who represented Scotland in first-class cricket from 1966 to 1976 and in List A cricket in 1980.

A right-handed batsman, More made his highest first-class score against Surrey in 1969, when he opened the second innings and scored 89 out of a team total of 166. Against the touring Pakistan national team in 1971 he set a Scottish catching record that still stands when he took seven catches in the match, six of them off the spin bowling of Jimmy Allan.

More toured Bangladesh with MCC in 1978–79. In all, he played more than 350 games for MCC. After retiring from league cricket at the age of 53 he played midweek and Sunday matches for various teams till his seventies.

He died in Edinburgh on 2 January 2022, at the age of 81.

References

1. ^ "Hamish Keith More (1940 – 2022) – A Heriot's Legend". Heriot's Rugby. 5 January 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
2. ^ "Why has Hamish More yet to be inducted into Scottish Cricket's Hall of Fame?". The Scotsman. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
3. "Surrey v Scotland 1969". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
4. "Scotland v Pakistanis 1971". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
5. "Scotland StatsZones: Most Catches: Match". CricketEurope. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
6. "Miscellaneous matches played by Hamish More". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
7. "Hamish More – Cricket Scotland". Retrieved 3 January 2022.
8. "Hamish More: Former Heriot's and Scotland cricketer dies at age of 81". Edinburgh Evening News. Retrieved 3 January 2022.

External links

• Hamish More at ESPNcricinfo
• Hamish More at CricketArchive (subscription required)
• H. K. More at CricketEurope

• 1940 births
• 2022 deaths
• Cricketers from Edinburgh
• People educated at George Heriot's School
• Scottish cricketers
• T. N. Pearce's XI cricketers