Edmund Adams

Personal information
Full name	Edmund Joe Adams
Born	(1915-02-01)1 February 1915 Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England
Died	1 March 2005(2005-03-01) (aged 90) Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England
Batting	Unknown
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1935	Somerset
Only First-class	20 July 1935 Somerset v Essex
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 1 Runs scored 5 Batting average 5.00 100s/50s 0/0 Top score 5 Catches/stumpings 0/–
Source: CricketArchive, 30 March 2010

Edmund Joe Adams (1 February 1915 – 1 March 2005) was an English cricketer who played one first-class match for Somerset in July 1935.^[1] Adams was born in Shepton Mallet and died in Kingston upon Thames. A book published in 2017 gave his date of death as 24 March 2005.^[2]

Adams batted in just one innings of the match against Essex at Clacton.^[3] He scored five coming in fifth in the batting order in the first innings, but when Somerset captain Reggie Ingle rejigged the order to make swift runs for a declaration in the second innings, Adams did not bat. Ingle's tactics were justified with a 150-run victory.

Life and career

Adams was the son of a stonemason and a schoolmistress, and the family relocated from Somerset to Wandsworth in London, where he played club cricket with Roehampton Cricket Club and the Club Cricket Conference, though he remained a supporter of Somerset.^[2] By career, he was a travelling salesman, though he also acted temporarily as a groundsman at Cheltenham after war service.^[2]