Cecil Timmins

{{Short description|English cricketer and soldier (1926 – 2004)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Cecil Timmins

| image =

| country = England

| fullname = Cecil Morley Joseph Barry Timmins

| birth_date = 6 May 1926

| birth_place = Falmouth, Cornwall, England

| death_date = January 2004 (aged 77)

| death_place = Falmouth, Cornwall, England

| nickname =

| family =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm medium

| role =

| club1 = Europeans

| year1 = 1945/46

| club2 = Travancore-Cochin

| year2 = 1952/53

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 2

| runs1 = 12

| bat avg1 = 3.00

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 5

| deliveries1 = 24

| wickets1 = 0

| bowl avg1 = –

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = –

| catches/stumpings1 = 3/–

| date = 31 December

| year = 2023

| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/cecil-timmins-35375 Cricinfo

}}

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.{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003587/19981015/403/0047|title=Timmins Falmouth|work=West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser|location=Truro|page=47|date=15 October 1998|access-date=31 December 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}} 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.{{London Gazette|issue=37354|date=16 November 1945|page=5605}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14723/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Cecil Timmins|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=31 December 2023|url-access=subscription}} Timmins struggled across both of his first-class matches, scoring 12 runs from four innings, with a highest score of 5.{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/cecil-timmins-35375|title=Player profile: Cecil Timmins|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|accessdate=31 December 2023}} Timmins later returned to England, where he died at Falmouth in January 2004.