Deaths on March 27

Neil Williams (cricketer)

Died on March 27, 2006

Neil Williams, English cricketer (b. 1962)

Neil Fitzgerald Williams (2 July 1962 – 27 March 2006) was an England cricketer, who played first-class cricket for both Middlesex and Essex. In a first-class career spanning over seventeen years, he took 675 wickets and scored 4,457 runs.

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Deaths on March 27

Neil Williams (cricketer)

Died on March 27, 2006

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