Rodney Howell Palmer was an English cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast

Fast bowling

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 bowler, he played for Hampshire County Cricket Club

Hampshire County Cricket Club

Hampshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Hampshire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1863 as a successor to the Hampshire county cricket teams and has played at the Antelope Ground from then until 1885, before moving to the County Ground where it...

 between 1930 and 1933. He also played first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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 for Cambridge University

Cambridge University Cricket Club

Cambridge University Cricket Club is a first-class cricket team. It now plays all but one of its first-class cricket matches as part of the Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence , which includes Anglia Ruskin University...

 and minor counties

Minor counties of English cricket

The Minor Counties are the cricketing counties of England and Wales that are not afforded first-class status. The game is administered by the Minor Counties Cricket Association which comes under the England and Wales Cricket Board...

 cricket for Berkshire

Berkshire County Cricket Club

Berkshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Berkshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy....

 in addition to representing the Egypt national cricket team

Egypt national cricket team

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Biography

Born in Sherfield-on-Loddon, Hampshire

Hampshire

Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, a historic cathedral city that was once the capital of England. Hampshire is notable for housing the original birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force...

 in 1907, Rodney Palmer's cricket career started with Berkshire, who he played for in the Minor Counties Championship in 1928 and 1929. He made his first-class debut for Cambridge University against Essex

Essex County Cricket Club

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 in the 1929 English cricket season

1929 English cricket season

The 1929 English cricket season featured a tour by the South African team. In domestic cricket, Nottinghamshire overcame their two northern rivals, Lancashire and Yorkshire, to win the County Championship.-Honours:*County Championship - Nottinghamshire...

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He made his debut for Hampshire the following season, playing a County Championship

County Championship

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 match against Kent

Kent County Cricket Club

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 in Southampton

Southampton

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. He returned to the Hampshire side for two County Championship matches against Yorkshire

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

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 and Kent in the 1933 season

1933 English cricket season

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 but did not play first-class cricket again. He failed to score a single run

Run (cricket)

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 during his four first-class matches.

He played six matches for the Egyptian national side against HM Martineau's XI

Hubert Martineau

Hubert Melville Martineau was an English patron of cricket and organiser of his own team. He also played three first-class matches between 1931 and 1932...

 between 1932 and 1936. He died in Berkshire

Berkshire

Berkshire is a historic county in the South of England. It is also often referred to as the Royal County of Berkshire because of the presence of the royal residence of Windsor Castle in the county; this usage, which dates to the 19th century at least, was recognised by the Queen in 1957, and...

in 1987 aged 79.