John Nichols (Worcestershire cricketer), Date of Birth, Date of Death

John Nichols (Worcestershire cricketer)

English cricketer

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1878

Date of Death: 29-Feb-1952

Profession: cricket umpire, cricketer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

John Ernest Nichols (20 April 1878 – 29 February 1952) was an English first-class cricketer who played five games for Worcestershire between 1902 and 1904, as well as making one first-class appearance for Minor Counties in 1912.
He had little success in any of these matches. Nichols also played for Norfolk and Staffordshire in the Minor Counties Championship, playing into his fifties for Norfolk.
In 1927 he returned an analysis of 12.2–6–14–7 for Norfolk against Leicestershire Second XI. He stood in one match as an umpire: that between Minor Counties and the South Africans at Lakenham in 1924. Nichols was born in Acle, Norfolk; he died at the age of 73 in Thorpe St Andrew, also in Norfolk.