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

Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Championship 1334.1 413 3232 143 8/44 22.60 13 4 55.97 40.37 Other Glos matches 160.1 57 370 19 6/63 19.47 3 1 50.57 38.50 Season 1494.2 470 3602 162 8/44 22.23 16 5 55.34 40.17 Career 18036.4 5523 43393 2264 10/79 19.16 190 65 47.80 40.09 1929 Parker returned to his best form in 1929 taking 130 wickets in the Championship at the much reduced average of 17.33. Illness during the winter prevented him from getting a good start to the season and an injury at Leicester kept him out of six matches and hampered him for the rest of the season. The emergence of Tom Goddard as a lethal off-spinner meant that Parker was not as overworked as he had been in the past. He took five or more wickets in an innings twelve times and ten or more wickets in a match on four occasions. Gloucestershire won fifteen matches, more than any other county, and rose to fourth place in the Championship table. As a batsman, Parker scored 259 runs in all matches at an average of 11.77, helped by eleven not-out innings. He held five catches. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 443. Gloucestershire v Warwickshire, Edgbaston, May 4, 6, 7 (Match drawn) c and b G.A.E.Paine 7 493-8d 37 10 63 3 R.E.S.Wyatt lbw 295 J.H.Parsons b F.R.Santall c T.W.J.Goddard - - - - 76-0 444. Gloucestershire v Essex, Leyton, May 8, 9, 10 (Gloucestershire won by 112 runs) b M.S.Nichols 3 201 27 9 55 5 H.P.Waugh c R.G.Ford 144 J.A.Cutmore b J.O’Connor b H.M.Morris c A.E.Dipper A.B.Hipkin b c C.A.G.Russell b L.C.Eastman 5 189 24.2 8 65 4 J.O’Connor c W.R.Hammond134 H.M.Morris b L.C.Eastman lbw G.F.Eastman c W.R.Hammond 445. Gloucestershire v Sussex, Hove, May 11, 13, 14 (Sussex won by 374 runs) c E.H.Bowley b M.W.Tate 3 134 8 0 25 0 280 not out 2 182 26 2 95 1 A.F.Wensley c H.Smith 410-2d 446. Gloucestershire v Middlesex, Lord’s, May 15, 16, 17 (Gloucestershire won by 196 runs) not out 18 190 14 4 25 3 N.E.Haig b 70 E.H.Hendren b W.F.F.Price b did not bat - 321-4d 46 12 101 4 N.E.Haig lbw 245 H.W.Lee b H.J.Enthoven b G.E.Hart st H.Smith 447. Gloucestershire v Kent, Bristol, May 18, 20, 21 (Kent won by eight wickets) c L.E.G.Ames b A.C.Wright 6 119 34 8 92 1 T.F.Mitchell c R.G.Ford 334 1 b F.E.Woolley 13 367 22 2 76 1 F.E.Woolley c W.R.Hammond 153-2 448. Gloucestershire v South Africans, Bristol, May 22, 23, 24 (Gloucestershire won by six wickets) not out 10 331 31 11 51 1 D.P.B.Morkel lbw 225 did not bat - 129-4 38.3 9 56 5 I.J.Siedle c W.R.Hammond 232 1 R.H.Catterall c T.W.J.Goddard D.P.B.Morkel c A.E.Dipper H.B.Cameron st H.Smith A.J.Bell c and b 449. Gloucestershire v Hampshire, Southampton, May 25, 27, 28 (Gloucestershire won by an innings and 129 runs) c and b A.S.Kennedy 6 429 6 4 6 1 L.Harfield c and b 110 1 63