Bill Hyman

William Hyman (7 March 1875 – 11 February 1959) played first-class cricket for Somerset from 1900 to 1914. He was born at Radstock, Somerset and died at Mount Charles, St Austell, Cornwall.

Cricket career Hyman was a right-handed middle order batsman who was renowned in club cricket as a hitter. He played for the first few years of his first-class cricket career as an occasional amateur player, but in the final years, from 1912 to 1914, he turned professional and played for Somerset much more frequently.

Hyman made his debut for Somerset in the same 1900 match against Yorkshire at Dewsbury that saw the debut of A. E. Bailey, but after that every other match of the small number that he played for the county up to August 1912 was held at Bath, where he also played his club cricket. In none of these first-class matches did Hyman make much impact: until 1912, his highest score was less than 20. He hit 62 runs from two consecutive overs of bowling from Grace. Other Thornbury bowlers that day included Gloucestershire first-class players Edward Spry and Arthur Paish. "Some say that it took him 110 minutes, others that it was a good deal less," says the account in Somerset's history. But this was his only score above 50 in the season and his batting average was just 17. When cricket was suspended for the First World War at the end of the 1914 season, Hyman's cricket career came to an end.

Outside cricket Hyman was also a football player and appeared alongside three of his brothers for the local Radstock Town F.C. team, as well as playing for Bath City F.C. and the Somerset county football side.