[1] Adamson made his debut for Durham against the Lancashire Second XI in the 1926 Minor Counties Championship.
[2] He made a single first-class appearance for the Minor Counties against Oxford University in 1934.
[3] Opening the batting in the first innings with Robert Remnant, he scored 15 runs before being dismissed by Kenneth Jackson.
In the second-innings he opened the batting with William Sime but was dismissed for a duck by Norman Mitchell-Innes.
His uncle, Lewis Vaughan Lodge, played international football for England, as well as first-class cricket for Hampshire.