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

weakness of Gloucestershire’s batting that their highest all out score was 198. Five of the seven games were lost. One that wasn’t was the match against Northamptonshire at Gloucester when the visitors were bowled out for 12 in their first innings, still the lowest all out score in a Championship match anywhere. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 3. Gloucestershire v Northamptonshire, Spa Ground, Gloucester, June 10, 11, (12) (Match drawn) not out 2 60 - - - - 12 1 not out 8 88 5 2 5 0 40-7 4. Gloucestershire v Worcestershire, Spa Ground, Gloucester, June 13, 14, 15 (Worcestershire won by eight wickets) st G.W.Gaukrodger b J.A.Cuffe 1 121 20 4 56 6 H.K.Foster b 103 1 F.L.Bowley b R.E.Foster lbw E.G.Arnold b R.D.Burrows b A.Bird lbw st G.W.Gaukrodger b J.A.Cuffe 0 61 10 1 32 1 F.L.Bowley b 80-2 5. Gloucestershire v Worcestershire, Worcester, June 27, 28, 29 (Worcestershire won by an innings and 109 runs) not out 10 182 15 1 74 0 447 b E.G.Arnold 6 156 6. Gloucestershire v Somerset, Bristol, July (4), 5, 6 (Match drawn) did not bat - 139-5d 8 2 15 1 B.L.Bisgood b 72 did not bat - 47-4d - - - - 102-8 7. Gloucestershire v Nottinghamshire, Trent Bridge, July 22, 23 (Nottinghamshire won by an innings and 38 runs) c J.Hardstaff b A.W.Hallam 13 160 14 3 42 0 322 st J.Stapleton b J.R.Gunn 6 124 8. Gloucestershire v Somerset, Taunton, July 29, 30, 31 (Somerset won by six wickets) c A.E.Lewis b O.C.Mordaunt 4 169 8 1 23 2 E.Robson c M.G.Salter 187 1 A.E.Lewis c F.M.Luce c and b O.C.Mordaunt 0 37 - - - - 20-4 9. Gloucestershire v Nottinghamshire, Spa Ground, Gloucester, August 8, 9, 10 (Nottinghamshire won by two wickets) b A.W.Hallam 1 198 24 7 57 2 J.Hardstaff c A.E.Winstone 151 G.Gunn b st T.W.Oates b A.W.Hallam 3 183 9 3 23 2 G.Gunn st J.H.Board 231-8 1 J.R.Gunn c T.Langdon SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 50 Ct County Championship 7 12 3 54 13 6.00 - 4 Career 9 16 4 62 13 5.16 - 4 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Championship 113 24 327 14 6/56 23.35 1 - 48.42 48.23 Career 141 28 439 15 6/56 29.26 1 - 56.40 51.89 1908 Parker finally broke into the Gloucestershire side on a permanent basis in June 1908. Wisden records that he made an advance all round. He captured 65 wickets in the Championship which, whilst a long way short of Dennett’s 149, made him the second highest wicket taker for the county that season. He took five wickets in an innings against Kent twice and also against Worcestershire. Batting thirty-three times in all he scored 295 runs including a first Championship fifty. Batting at number eleven against Somerset at Gloucester he hit 51 not out in forty-five minutes, helping J.H.Huggins to 6