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Cecil Morley Joseph Barry Timmins (6 May 1926 – January 2004) was an English first-class cricketer and an officer in the British Indian Army.

Timmins was born at Falmouth in May 1926, one of nine children of Cecil Timmins senior and his wife, Violet. They were the proprietors of the Star and Garter public house in Falmouth. Timmins served in the latter stages of the Second World War as a private with the Queen's Royal Regiment, prior to gaining a commission as a second lieutenant in British Indian Army in August 1945, a month prior to the end of the war. Following the end of the war, Timmins played in a first-class cricket match in December 1945 for the Europeans cricket team against the Indians at Madras in the Madras Presidency Match. Following Indian Independence in 1947, Timmins remained in India. He made a second appearance in first-class cricket in the 1952–53 Ranji Trophy for Travancore-Cochin against Mysore at Trivandrum. Timmins struggled across both of his first-class matches, scoring 12 runs from four innings, with a highest score of 5. Timmins later returned to England, where he died at Falmouth in January 2004.

References

1. "Timmins Falmouth". West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser. Truro. 15 October 1998. p. 47. Retrieved 31 December 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
2. "No. 37354". The London Gazette. 16 November 1945. p. 5605.
3. "First-Class Matches played by Cecil Timmins". CricketArchive. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
4. "Player profile: Cecil Timmins". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 31 December 2023.

External links

• Cecil Timmins at ESPNcricinfo

• 1926 births
• 2004 deaths
• Sportspeople from Falmouth, Cornwall
• Military personnel from Cornwall
• Queen's Royal Regiment soldiers
• British Army personnel of World War II
• British Indian Army officers
• Indian Army personnel of World War II
• English cricketers
• Europeans cricketers
• Travancore-Cochin cricketers