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Lawrence 'Lol' Arthur Spence (14 January 1932 – 10 October 2017) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who bowled leg break. He was born at Blaby, Leicestershire.

Spence made his first-class debut for Leicestershire against Warwickshire in the 1952 County Championship at Grace Road, and made eight further appearances in that season. The following season, he made ten first-class appearances, eight of them in the County Championship. His final first-class appearance for the county came in his only match in 1954 against Kent. He made a total of twenty first-class appearances for Leicestershire, scoring 326 runs at an average of 11.64, with a high score of 44. He died in 2017.

References

1. Spence
2. ^ "First-Class Matches played by Lawrence Spence". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
3. "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Lol Spence". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
4. "Lawrence 'Lol' Spence". Professional Cricketers' Association. Archived from the original on 22 June 2017. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
5. "Lawrence 'Lol' Spence (1932-2017)". Leicestershire County Cricket Club. Retrieved 6 November 2017.

External links

• Lawrence Spencer at ESPNcricinfo
• Lawrence Spencer at CricketArchive

• 1932 births
• 2017 deaths
• Sportspeople from Blaby
• Cricketers from Leicestershire
• English cricketers
• Leicestershire cricketers
• 20th-century English sportsmen