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| Full name | Hugh Edmund Watts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 March 1922 Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 21 December 1993 (aged 71) Trebetherick, Cornwall, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | The Abbot | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Leg-break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1939–1952 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1947 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FC debut | 19 August 1939 Somerset v Hampshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last FC | 29 August 1952 Somerset v Leicestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 12 January 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hugh Edmund Watts (4 March 1922 – 27 December 1993) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Somerset as an amateur player before and after the Second World War. He also played for Cambridge University in 1947, winning a blue by playing in the annual Varsity cricket match against Oxford. In his working life, he was a schoolmaster, and most of his first-class cricket was played in school holiday times.