Michael John Edwards (born 1 March 1940) is a former English cricketer who played for Cambridge University from 1960 to 1962 and for Surrey from 1961 to 1974.
[2] He played twice for Surrey in 1961 while still at Cambridge, his first match being against Warwickshire at the end of July.
[1] This transformed his fortunes, and he struck up a productive opening partnership with John Edrich.
[4] Edwards made his first century that season, and reached 1,000 runs, the first of five occasions on which he did so.
Excluding wicket-keepers, this is the ninth highest number of catches ever held in a season for Surrey.
[3] He toured the West Indies with the Duke of Norfolk's XI in 1969–70, but in three first-class fixtures he scored only 67 runs.
[3] In 1971 he was a member of the Surrey side that won the County Championship for the first time since 1958.
15 matches brought him only 402 runs with a reduced average of 16.08, with only two scores of over fifty in 27 innings.
[9] On 22 July 1966 Surrey played the touring West Indians in a 60 overs a side match.
He subsequently resigned the post following a majority decision by the membership to accept a donation from the Transvaal in apartheid-era South Africa.
At the school he taught Economics and helped to chair the divisional Tertiary Education Board for Lambeth [ILEA Division 9].