William Sidney Oke Warner (29 August 1844 – 22 October 1871) was a Welsh-born English cricketer who played in 13 first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University between 1865 and 1868.^[1] He was born at Swansea, Glamorgan and died at Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Warner was educated at home in Devon by his clergyman father and then at Trinity College, Cambridge.^[2] He had played a lot of cricket for the Gentlemen of Devon team as a right-handed middle-order batsman, but failed to make much impression on Cambridge cricket in either 1865 or 1866.^[1] In 1867, however, he scored 43 in his first match against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).^[3] He then retained his place in the first eleven all the way through to the University Match against Oxford University when, top-scoring for his side in each innings with 27 and 34 not out, he played a big part in a Cambridge victory.^[4] He played again regularly in 1868 and made his highest first-class score, 50, in the match against Surrey.^[5] His final first-class match was the 1868 University Match, though his contribution to another Cambridge victory was limited.^[1]

Warner graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1868.^[2] He was ordained as a Church of England deacon in 1870 and served as curate at Shalfleet on the Isle of Wight from that year.^[2] After a year, however, he died, aged 27.

Warner's older brother Townsend was a much less successful cricketer at Cambridge.

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External links

• William Warner at ESPNcricinfo