65:, who played for Warwickshire for more than 20 years on either side of the First World War, Samuel Bates was a right-handed tail-end batsman and a left-arm orthodox spin bowler. He achieved very little in his five first-class matches and his career-best bowling came in Warwickshire's heaviest defeat of their
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