Famous Cricketers No 91 - J.C.Laker

not out 14 214 18 4 39 1 R.Subba Row c P.J.Loader 203-6 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Championship 21 27 7 267 28 13.35 - - 13 Other Surrey matches 3 3 0 34 17 11.33 - - 2 Season 24 30 7 301 28 13.08 - - 15 Career 414 516 99 7050 113 16.90 2 18 257 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Championship 712.2 221 1722 72 7/38 23.91 5 2 59.36 40.29 Other Surrey matches 85 25 198 6 3/59 33.00 - - 85.00 38.82 Season 797.2 246 1920 78 7/38 24.61 5 2 61.33 40.13 Career (6-ball) 14814.5 4923 } 32769 1814 10/53 18.06 119 30 51.96 34.76 (8-ball) 671 184 1962 After two years out of the game Laker returned to first-class cricket, playing as an amateur for Essex in the 1962 season. He took part in fourteen Championship games and showed he had not lost his touch by taking fifty-one wickets for 18.86 runs apiece. He had a particularly effective match against Kent at the Crabble ground at Dover when he took thirteen wickets in the game at a cost of 159 runs. He took six wickets in an innings against both Sussex and Warwickshire and five in an innings against Somerset. The author remembers watching him bowl at Worcester towards the end of the season and he looked far and away the best spin-bowler I had seen that year. He batted in eleven innings scoring just 43 runs at an average of 4.77 and he took five catches. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 415. Essex v Derbyshire, Ilford, May 12, 14, 15 (Derbyshire won by seven wickets) c R.W.Taylor b G.W.Richardson 3 139 26 9 74 2 H.L.Johnson b 268 1 W.F.Oates c G.Barker b H.L.Jackson 12 156 - - - - 29-3 416. Essex v Nottinghamshire, Trent Bridge, May 26, 28, (29) (Match drawn) not out 1 194-8d 9 5 8 1 H.I.Moore c sub 167 did not bat - 155-5 417. Essex v Lancashire, Liverpool, May 30, 31, June 1 (Essex won by 28 runs) did not bat - 296-8d 26 9 47 1 C.Hilton lbw 149 1 did not bat - 153-7d 29 6 81 4 J.D.Bond b 272 R.Collins st B.Taylor T.Greenhough c G.C.Hurst C.Hilton lbw 418. Essex v Leicestershire, Hinckley, June 2, 4, 5 (Essex won by eight wickets) c W.Watson b J.S.Savage 0 132 15.1 5 39 3 P.A.Munden lbw 201 J.Birkenshaw c B.Taylor J.S.Savage c K.C.Preston did not bat - 187-2 13 4 22 4 S.Jayasinghe c W.T.Greensmith 116 P.A.Munden lbw J.Birkenshaw c B.R.Knight C.T.Spencer c P.A.Spicer 419. Essex v Worcestershire, Romford, June 9, 11 (Worcestershire won by an innings and 172 runs) not out 3 118 21 4 67 0 378 1 c R.Booth b J.A.Flavell 4 88 420. Essex v Middlesex, Brentwood, June 23, 25, 26 (Essex won by ten wickets) did not bat - 425-7d - - - - 115 did not bat - 27-0 34 5 72 1 S.E.J.Russell c G.J.Smith 334 58