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

Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Championship 1288.5 377 2962 205 8/39 14.44 21 8 37.72 38.30 Other Glos matches 56.5 9 163 14 6/34 11.64 2 - 24.35 47.80 Season 1345.4 386 3125 219 8/39 14.26 23 8 36.86 38.70 Career 21464 6519 51220 2800 10/79 18.29 245 84 45.99 39.77 1932 Some waning of Parker’s powers could be seen in 1932. He took only 128 Championship wickets at the much higher cost of 21.43. There were still some magical performances as when he took thirteen wickets for 97 runs against Worcestershire at the Victoria Ground, Cheltenham and seven for 26 against Somerset at Bath. Generally, though, he was not quite the destroyer of batting line-ups that he had been. As a batsman he made 227 runs in all matches at an average of 7.32 and he took six catches. He was approaching fifty years of age and some diminution in his powers was perhaps to be expected. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 523. Gloucestershire v Worcestershire, Victoria Ground, Cheltenham, May 7, 9, 10 (Gloucestershire won by 143 runs) b S.H.Martin 3 176 28.2 10 52 7 C.F.Walters lbw 155 J.Fox b H.H.I.H.Gibbons c W.R.Hammond B.W.Quaife c W.R.Hammond R.H.Williams c W.R.Hammond C.F.Root c W.R.Hammond P.F.Jackson st B.S.Bloodworth not out 4 254-8d 22 3 45 6 J.Fox c T.W.J.Goddard 132 S.H.Martin lbw B.W.Quaife b R.H.Williams c W.R.Hammond M.E.White st B.S.Bloodworth P.F.Jackson c W.R.Hammond 524. Gloucestershire v Kent, Bristol, May 14, (16), 17 (Kent won by 150 runs) c W.H.Ashdown b A.P.Freeman 1 94 11.3 3 34 4 B.H.Valentine c W.R.Hammond 167 L.J.Todd c W.L.Neale C.Fairservice b A.Blunden st B.S.Bloodworth c L.E.G.Ames b H.T.W.Hardinge 1 131 25 3 89 1 W.H.Ashdown lbw 208-2d 525. Gloucestershire v Somerset, Bristol, May 18, 19, 20 (Match drawn) did not bat - 153-3d 13 6 16 4 R.A.Ingle c W.R.Hammond 103 C.C.C.Case st B.S.Bloodworth C.K.Linney c A.E.Dipper W.H.R.Andrews c W.R.Hammond 11 5 7 0 23-1 526. Gloucestershire v Northamptonshire, Bristol, May (21), 23, (24) (Match drawn) 5 3 3 2 A.H.Bakewell c B.S.Bloodworth 16-3 1 B.W.Bellamy c and b 527. Gloucestershire v Oxford University, The Parks, May 25, 26, (27) (Match drawn) b H.G.O.Owen-Smith 10 196 25 10 42 6 F.G.H.Chalk lbw 139 W.O.Lindsay c C.J.Barnett H.G.O.Owen-Smith b P.J.Van der Bijl c B.S.Bloodworth C.D.A.Pullan b H.J.Linnell b c H.G.O.Owen-Smith b R.H.J.Brooke 18 280 4 2 6 0 28-0 75