Famous Cricketers No 55 - Arthur Milton

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Championship 24 43 5 1301 131 34.23 2 6 23 Other Glos matches 2 4 1 20 9* 6.66 - - 9 Season 26 47 6 1321 131 32.21 2 6 32 Career 421 728 95 21898 163 34.59 37 111 584 1964 Milton played little cricket in 1964. A broken arm suffered in Gloucestershire’s opening match against Oxford University, put him out of action until the third week in July. He appeared in the next six games before further injury sidelined him for the rest of the season. The seven matches he played in brought him a total of 324 runs at an average of 29.45 with a highest score of 83 not out and two other fifties. He made six catches. It was a frustrating season for him and Gloucestershire, in his absence, sank to bottom place in the Championship table. He made no appearances in the Gillette Cup. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 422. Gloucestershire v Oxford University, The Parks, April 29, (30), May 1 (Match drawn) retired hurt 83 291-8d 187 73-2 423. Gloucestershire v Middlesex, Bristol, July 22, 23, 24 (Middlesex won by ten wickets) c C.T.Radley b D.Bennett 19 223 344-9d 1 lbw b D.Bennett 0 142 22-0 424. Gloucestershire v Derbyshire, Lydney, July 25, 27, 28 (Match drawn) c M.H.J.Allen b E.Smith 70 330-7d 320 not out 68 187-3d 58-1 425. Gloucestershire v Somerset, Bristol, August 1, 3, 4 (Gloucestershire won by five wickets) c and b R.C.Kerslake 3 126 137 b B.A.Langford 28 254-5 239-9d 2 426. Gloucestershire v Yorkshire, Bramall Lane, August 5, 6, 7 (Match drawn) c and b F.S.Trueman 22 127 319 1 c P.J.Sharpe b R.Illingworth 7 210-9d 427. Gloucestershire v Warwickshire, College Ground, Cheltenham, August 8, 10, 11 (Warwickshire won by five wickets) c M.J.K.Smith b T.W.Cartwright 9 216 101 1 c M.J.K.Smith b D.J.Brown 6 182-9d 298-5 428. Gloucestershire v Glamorgan, College Ground, Cheltenham, August 12, 13, 14 (Glamorgan won by 110 runs) c A.Rees b H.D.S.Miller 9 196 242 c W.D.Slade b H.D.S.Miller 0 55 119 1 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Championship 6 12 1 241 70 21.90 - 2 6 Other Glos matches 1 1 1 83 83* - - 1 - Season 7 13 2 324 83* 29.45 - 3 6 Career 428 741 97 22222 163 34.50 37 114 590 1965 In 1965 Milton was restored to full fitness and he headed the Gloucestershire batting averages, appearing in 29 matches and scoring 1,343 runs at an average of 28.57. He made two hundreds, both at Cheltenham, against Kent and Sussex, the latter innings yielding the highest score of his career, 170. He had another spell as an opener starting at the end of June as Martin Young’s retirement had 39