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

Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Championship 1226.4 416 2570 195 9/36 13.17 21 9 37.74 34.91 Other matches 78.1 36 142 11 5/41 12.90 1 - 42.63 30.27 Season 1304.5 452 2712 206 9/36 13.16 22 9 38.00 34.64 Career 8555 2454 21848 1054 10/79 20.72 76 23 48.70 42.56 1923 Parker had another wonderful season for Gloucestershire in 1923 taking 167 Championship wickets at an average of 18.55. He took five wickets in an innings seventeen times and ten wickets in a match on five occasions. Against Somerset at Bristol he bowled sixty-three overs in an innings of 532-9 declared and in the following match, against Worcestershire at Bristol, he bowled more than seventy-one overs to take thirteen wickets for 150 in the match. He was overworked, bowling more than seven hundred more overs than anyone else in the Gloucestershire side. As a batsman he scored 600 runs with a highest score of fifty against Lancashire at Gloucester’s Tuffley Avenue ground. He took nineteen catches. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 244. Gloucestershire v Surrey, Bristol, May 9, 10, 11 (Match drawn) not out 16 359 22 8 52 1 A.Ducat b 174 did not bat - 213-6d 35 15 65 3 J.B.Hobbs b 292-7 1 A.Ducat c B.S.Bloodworth J.W.Hitch c and b 245. Gloucestershire v Essex, Leyton, May 12, 14, 15 (Match drawn) lbw b P.E.Morris 1 204 30 16 47 2 C.A.G.Russell b 198 J.R.Freeman c E.G.Dennett c P.A.Perrin b C.A.G.Russell 33 184 2 0 4 0 7-0 246. Gloucestershire v Surrey, Kennington Oval, May 16, 17, 18 (Surrey won by eight wickets) c H.S.Harrison b H.A.Peach 2 64 44.4 17 94 5 A.Sandham lbw 227 1 H.S.Harrison c J.G.W.T.Bessant H.A.Peach c J.G.W.T.Bessant W.C.H.Sadler b R.F.Lowe b c P.G.H.Fender b J.W.Hitch 0 252 - - - - 90-2 247. Gloucestershire v Somerset, Taunton, May 19, 21, 22 (Somerset won by 343 runs) c J.C.W.MacBryan b J.C.White 0 106 26.5 9 42 2 A.G.Marshall b 180 1 J.J.Bridges b c M.D.Lyon b J.J.Bridges 1 87 43.4 17 136 7 J.C.W.MacBryan lbw 356 A.E.S.Rippon c W.R.Hammond J.Daniell b M.D.Lyon c W.R.Hammond A.G.Marshall b C.A.Winter b J.J.Bridges st H.Smith 248. Gloucestershire v Oxford University, The Parks, May (23), 24, 25 (Oxford University won by an innings and 44 runs) lbw b G.T.S.Stevens 3 71 32 10 75 3 G.T.S.Stevens c F.G.Robinson 234 H.O.Hopkins lbw M.Patten c V.J.Robinson c H.O.Hopkins b R.H.Bettington 12 119 249. Gloucestershire v Hampshire, Spa Ground, Gloucester, May 26, (28), (29) (Match drawn) c A.E.L.Hill b G.S.Boyes 2 113 32.4 14 69 6 G.Brown b 145 A.S.Kennedy b W.K.Pearce b J.A.Newman b A.S.McIntyre b G.S.Boyes lbw 35