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Ian Thwaites (4 March 1943 – 30 September 2015) was an English physician and cricketer. He played twenty-two first-class matches for Cambridge University Cricket Club between 1963 and 1964.[1][2]

Ian Thwaites

Personal information
Full name	Ian Guy Thwaites
Born	(1943-03-04)4 March 1943 Brighton, Sussex, England
Died	30 September 2015(2015-09-30) (aged 72)
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 29 June 2016

Biography

Ian Thwaites was born in 1943 in Brighton, the youngest child of four to Guy Thwaites, a local general practitioner (GP).[3] He played cricket for Sussex Second XI and Cambridge University, and in 1964 won a Blue.[3] Following training in medicine at Cambridge and St Thomas’ Hospital, he became a doctor and worked in Africa before moving to Horsham, where he worked for over 40 years, first as a GP, and then as a private sports physician.[3] The cricketer Christopher Martin-Jenkins, in his autobiography CMJ – A Cricketing Life, describes being treated by him.[4] Thwaites was a member of Horsham Cricket Club, where he played cricket for many years, and he was a co-founder of Keep Southwater Green.[3][5]

His son, Guy, also played first-class cricket for Cambridge.^{[citation needed]}

He died from prostate cancer on 30 September 2015.[3]

See also

• List of Cambridge University Cricket Club players

References

External links

• Ian Thwaites at ESPNcricinfo

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