Famous Cricketers No 81 - C.W.L.Parker

185. Gloucestershire v Lancashire, Cheltenham, August (18), 19, 20 (Lancashire won by ten wickets) lbw b R.K.Tyldesley 0 132 21.5 6 46 6 J.D.Tyldesley st F.G.Robinson 170 J.Sharp b J.S.Heap b R.K.Tyldesley b L.W.Cook b H.Dean b b J.S.Heap 3 75 6.5 0 28 0 39-0 186. Gloucestershire v Leicestershire, Cheltenham, August 21, 23 (Gloucestershire won by an innings and 53 runs) lbw b J.H.King 26 190 17 9 22 5 H.Whitehead lbw 54 G.H.Salmon b W.E.Astill b H.King b S.Coe b 26.1 9 35 9 W.F.Curtis b 83 G.H.Salmon c E.G.Dennett J.H.King c P.F.C.Williams A.T.Sharp b S.Coe lbw W.E.Astill c E.G.Dennett H.King b W.C.M.Berridge c P.T.Mills W.E.Benskin st F.G.Robinson 187. Gloucestershire v Worcestershire, Worcester, August 25, 26, 27 (Gloucestershire won by nine wickets) c H.K.Foster b G.G.F.Greig 22 395 38 11 96 5 H.K.Foster c P.F.C.Williams 285 J.W.C.Turner b F.A.Pearson c W.K.McClintock M.K.Foster b W.H.Taylor b did not bat - 85-1 35 10 79 3 F.L.Bowley lbw 191 1 W.H.Taylor b C.R.Preece b SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 50 Ct County Championship 20 31 6 171 27 6.84 - 8 Career 187 316 83 2463 51* 10.57 1 107 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Championship 862.1 274 1974 125 9/35 15.79 10 4 41.38 38.15 Career 6062.2 1620 16243 684 9/35 23.74 35 7 53.17 44.65 1921 The season of 1921 was a red-letter one for Charlie Parker as he took part in his one and only Test match during the season, the Fourth Test against Australia at Old Trafford. In some ways it was not much of an honour. In a season of general panic amongst the England selectors, thirty players were chosen as Australia steamrollered to three successive Test victories and it could be argued that one would have to be bad to be overlooked. Parker certainly was not that. He led the Gloucestershire averages taking 156 Championship wickets at 16.54 and was eighth in the national averages taking 164 wickets at an average of 17.64. In the Test Match he took 2 for 32 in twenty-eight overs, hardly a failure, but he was left out of the side for the next match at Kennington Oval. For Gloucestershire he took all ten wickets in an innings for the only time in his career, against Somerset at Bristol and he took five wickets in an innings nineteen times. In five successive innings at Cheltenham he took twenty-nine wickets. He had an outstanding all-round match against Leicestershire in July scoring 13 and 82, his highest first-class score, and taking 7 for 115 and 5 for 52. He scored 399 runs in the season at 10.50 and held nine catches. 26