Famous Cricketers No 93 - Keith Fletcher O.B.E.

Season 33 55 4 1486 101* 29.13 1 11 41 Career 104 180 19 4605 125 28.60 3 26 90 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i Championship 4 0 18 0 - - - Career 5 0 19 0 - - - 1966 For this season the first twelve championship matches for each county, on a home and away basis, were restricted to sixty-five overs in the first innings. Keith Fletcher played in eleven of these. His average for the first innings in these matches was 15.2 in eleven innings, once not out, whereas it was 27.3 in ten completed second innings. These averages compare to 23.68 in the championship matches in which he played. Overall the experiment did not succeed and it was not repeated. Fletcher scored over 300 runs less in the championship than in 1965 but compensated in other matches for Essex and the MCC, making a century for Essex against the West Indian tourists at Southend. The innings included two sixes and fifteen fours with strokes all around the wicket. Fletcher took his first first-class wicket, for Essex versus Oxford University at Oxford, when he bowled ten overs, twice as many as in his first four seasons. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 105. Essex v Cambridge University, Fenner’s, April 27, 28, 29 (Essex won by 50 runs) c A.V.E.Gould b J.F.Fitzgerald 10 249 214 1 b R.Roopnaraine 3 172-6d 157 2 106. MCC v Yorkshire, Lord’s, April 30, May 2, 3 (Match drawn) not out 37 282-4d 281-6d c J.G.Binks b D.Wilson 23 206-9 254-4d 107. Essex v Leicestershire, Leicester, May (4), (5), 6 (Match drawn) (65 overs) c M.E.J.C.Norman b P.T.Marner 32 172-4d 85-1 108. Essex v Warwickshire, Edgbaston, May (11), 12, 13 (Warwickshire won by 24 runs) (65 overs) not out 2 95-2d 92-1d lbw b J.M.Allan 0 190 217-2d 1 109.$ Essex v Somerset, Ilford, May 14, 15,16 (Match drawn) (65 overs) c G.Clayton b K.E.Palmer 0 156 102 1 b F.E.Rumsey 73 286-7 343-6d 110. Essex v Gloucestershire, Ilford, May 18, 19, 20 (Match drawn) b D.A.Allen 21 241-8d - - - - 160-4d not out 42 123-4d† 7 1 29 0 147-7 1 111. Essex v Derbyshire, Ilkeston, May 25, 26, 27 (Match drawn) (65 overs) c R.W.Taylor b D.C.Morgan 25 95† 110 1 c M.Hill b D.C.Morgan 58 160-4† 209-5d 1 112. Essex v Worcestershire, Romford, May 28, 30, 31 (Worcestershire won by four wickets) (65 overs) c R.G.A.Headley b B.M.Brain 22 210-4c 218-7c 1 c R.G.A.Headley b B.L.d’Oliveira 5 190 183-6 113. Essex v Nottinghamshire, Romford, June 1, 2, 3 (Essex won by 56 runs) (65 overs) lbw b C.Forbes 10 138 102 1 c H.I.Moore b R.A.White 6 145 125 1 114. Essex v Oxford University, The Parks, June 4, 6, 7 (Essex won by 162 runs) c D.A.Ashworth b A.G.M.Watson 89 258† - - - - 199 not out 51 240-7d† 10 3 27 1 J.P.R.F.Stephens c and b 137 2 115. Essex v Sussex, Brentwood, June 8, 9, 10 (Sussex won by 64 runs) (65 overs) c and b A.Buss 7 109 193 c L.J.Lenham b A.S.M.Oakman 0 186 166 1 14