Famous Cricketers No 55 - Arthur Milton

445. Gloucestershire v Northamptonshire, Wagon Works Ground, Gloucester, July 17, 19, (20) (Match drawn) b B.S.Crump 47 120-4 312 446. Gloucestershire v Warwickshire, Wagon Works Ground, Gloucester, July 21, 22, (23) (Match drawn) c A.C.Smith b R.Miller 57 126 187 78-6 1 447. Gloucestershire v Surrey, Kennington Oval, July 24, 26, 27 (Surrey won by 188 runs) b D.A.D.Sydenham 7 92 175 lbw b D.A.D.Sydenham 8 147 252-2d 448. Gloucestershire v Yorkshire, Lydney, July 28, (29), 30 (Match drawn) b R.A.Hutton 5 87 160 b F.S.Trueman 14 80-2 449. Gloucestershire v Somerset, Bristol, July 31, August 2, 3 (Gloucestershire won by 19 runs) b W.E.Alley 5 186 122-6d c F.T.Willetts b C.R.M.Atkinson 1 119-2d 164 450. Gloucestershire v Derbyshire, Burton-on-Trent, August 4, 5 (Derbyshire won by 47 runs) c H.L.Johnson b A.B.Jackson 0 101 153 c H.L.Johnson b H.J.Rhodes 3 80 75 1 451. Gloucestershire v Kent, College Ground, Cheltenham, August 7, 9, 10 (Kent won by 55 runs) c D.Nicholls b A.L.Dixon 110 305 284-6d 1 c B.W.Luckhurst b D.L.Underwood 20 82 158 452. Gloucestershire v Worcestershire, College Ground, Cheltenham, August 11, 12, 13 (Worcestershire won by seven wickets) c J.A.Ormrod b N.Gifford 32 210 253 run out 10 173 131-3 453. Gloucestershire v Sussex, College Ground, Cheltenham, August 14, 16, 17 (Gloucestershire won by 177 runs) c M.A.Buss b N.I.Thomson 170 370 231 1 c G.C.Cooper b J.A.Snow 7 146-5d 108 1 454. Gloucestershire v Kent, Dover, August 18, 19, 20 (Kent won by 166 runs) c B.W.Luckhurst b D.M.Sayer 11 81 202 1 lbw b J.C.J.Dye 9 156 201-5d 1 455. Gloucestershire v Northamptonshire, Northampton, August 21, 23, 24 (Match drawn) not out 86 187-8d 227-5d 2 not out 43 87-1 140-6d 1 456. Gloucestershire v Lancashire, Bristol, August 25, 26, 27 (Gloucestershire won by nine wickets) c G.K.Knox b P.Lever 21 238 105 c P.Lever b D.Lloyd 5 56-1 186 457. Gloucestershire v Nottinghamshire, Bristol, August 28, 30, 31 (Match drawn) b M.N.S.Taylor 34 214 147 c H.I.Moore b A.J.Corran 5 120-9 206-4d 1 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Championship 28 50 4 1342 170 29.17 2 5 17 Other Glos matches 1 1 0 1 1 1.00 - - 3 Season 29 51 4 1343 170 28.57 2 5 20 Career 457 792 101 23565 170 34.10 39 119 610 1966 Milton again topped the Gloucestershire averages in 1966 - he was making a habit of it at this stage of his career. He played in all the county’s fixtures and made 1,646 runs at an average of 29.92, recording his highest aggregate of runs since 1959. At the age of 38 he had resumed as an opening batsman and, in this role, made two Championship hundreds, against Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. In the first of these innings, at Bristol in July, he carried his bat through the innings for 138, adding 68 for the last wicket with Barrie Meyer. In this season a number of matches had a 65 41