Alan Ormrod

{{short description|English cricketer (born 1942)}}

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{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Alan Ormrod

| image =

| caption =

| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|22 December 1942}}

| birth_place = Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm offbreak

| columns = 2

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 500

| runs1 = 23,206

| bat avg1 = 30.90

| 100s/50s1 = 32/113

| top score1 = 204*

| deliveries1 = 1,794

| wickets1 = 25

| bowl avg1 = 43.76

| fivefor1 = 1

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 5/27

| catches/stumpings1= 400/0

| column2 = List A

| matches2 = 286

| runs2 = 6,398

| bat avg2 = 25.18

| 100s/50s2 = 2/34

| top score2 = 124*

| deliveries2 = 153

| wickets2 = 4

| bowl avg2 = 33.50

| fivefor2 = 0

| tenfor2 = 0

| best bowling2 = 3/51

| catches/stumpings2= 78/0

| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31807/31807.html CricketArchive

| date = 20 April

| year = 2019

}}

Joseph Alan Ormrod (born 22 December 1942) is a former English first-class cricketer who played for Worcestershire and Lancashire.

A right-handed opening batsman, Ormrod was a key member in Worcestershire's back to back Championship winning sides of 1964 and 1965. He passed 1,000 runs in a season on 12 occasions with a best of 1,535 runs in 1978. He toured Pakistan with MCC Under-25 in 1966–67.

Ormrod scored a total of 21,753 runs for Worcestershire and is their only batsman to have scored a century in both innings of a match against Somerset, which he did in 1980. He finished his career with a brief stint at Lancashire.

Ormrod's early cricketing exploits were in Scotland as a reliable and stylish opening batsman for the Kirkcaldy High School 1st XI (average 35.1 in the 1959 season).Kirkcaldy High School Magazine 1959 p.47