William Ward Odell MC (5 November 1881 – 4 October 1917) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Leicestershire.
[2] Odell's father was Rev Joseph Odell, a Primitive Methodist minister who had ministries in Wales, Leicester, where William was born, Brooklyn in the US, and Birmingham, where he was in charge of the Conference Hall and where William was educated at the King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys.
Odell played cricket as an amateur, and was a right-handed lower middle order batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler.
[8] In his first ever match for London County in 1902, he took six second innings wickets against Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), including Arthur Conan Doyle for a duck.
The citation read: For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in taking out a patrol at a critical moment and gaining very valuable information, which resulted in bodies of the enemy who were massing for attack being dispersed by our artillery fire.