About: Norman Harding (cricketer)

Norman Walter Harding (19 March 1916 – 25 September 1947) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club from 1937 until shortly before his death in 1947. He died in Abingdon-on-Thames. Harding was considered to be a key member of Kent's bowling attack either side of the war. He took 69 wickets in 1939 and 68 in 1947 and was perhaps the fastest Kent bowler since Bill Bradley who had bowled at the turn of the century. He died in the 1947 polio epidemic which swept the United Kingdom after less than a week in hospital at Abingdon-on-Thames. He was 31.