John Morris

John Edward Morris (born 1 April 1964) is an English former cricketer, who played for England in three Test matches and eight One Day Internationals in 1990 and 1991. He played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1982 to 1993, for Durham from 1994 to 1999 and for Nottinghamshire in 2000 and 2001.

The cricket writer, Colin Bateman, commented that Morris was, "a talented and potentially destructive middle-order batsman".

Morris was selected for eight matches during the One Day International series on this tour, his best performance being a top score of 63 not out in a match at Adelaide, which was not enough to see England to victory. In his seven other ODIs, he only scored 20 or more runs on one occasion. Following the tour, Morris never played representative cricket for England again.

After a long career at Derbyshire, Morris moved to Durham in 1994; in June of the same year, while playing against Warwickshire, Brian Lara knocked a boundary from a delivery off Morris' occasional bowling as he reached the highest score in first-class cricket history, 501 not out. Morris moved to Nottinghamshire in 2000 and retired in 2001.

Morris was a stocky, right-handed middle-order batsman and made 21,539 runs in 362 first-class matches, including 52 centuries at an average of 37.72. He made 8,362 runs in 350 List A matches, with 10 centuries and an average of 27.06.

Morris was later employed as Head of Cricket at Derbyshire but was sacked in May 2011, during the club's County Championship match against Essex.

In 2018, Morris along with his son, opened a wine bar called Bradmans in Duffield, Derbyshire.