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

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches 2 3 0 47 31 15.66 - - 2 Championship 18 25 4 928 134* 44.19 2 5 17 Other Essex matches 2 3 0 107 93 35.66 - 1 4 Other matches 4 7 1 139 53 23.16 - 1 1 Season 26 38 5 1221 134* 37.00 2 7 24 Career 243 417 49 12121 228* 32.93 15 68 237 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i Test matches 3 1 14 0 - - - Championship 14.3 3 43 1 1-11 43.00 - Other Essex matches 5 1 5 0 - - - Other matches 2.3 0 13 0 - - - Season 25 5 75 1 1-11 75.00 - Career 122 18 517 9 4-50 57.44 - 1969/70 - MCC in Ceylon An MCC tour originally arranged to Uganda, Kenya and Zambia was hastily changed to Ceylon and the Far East when the invitations from the original hosts were withdrawn in protest at a proposed tour to England by the South Africans. Only the four day match in Colombo was given first-class status. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 244.$ MCC v Ceylon, Colombo, February 20, 21, 22, 23 (MCC won by 173 runs) b H.S.M.Pieris 0 132 134 2 c B.G.Reid b D.Sahabandu 48 302-7d 127 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Other match 1 2 0 48 48 24.00 - - 2 Career 244 419 49 12169 228* 32.88 15 68 239 1970 This was undoubtedly Fletcher’s most successful season to date. Although he played in only fifteen championship matches he again headed the averages for Essex and had notched up two championship centuries and one other by the middle of June. He scored a fourth in August. In between he played in the last four of five unofficial Tests against the Rest of the World XI, arranged to replace the cancelled visit by South Africa. He showed splendid form in these and as that form continued through the season he gained selection for the winter tour to Australia and New Zealand. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 245.$ MCC v Glamorgan, Lord’s, April 29, 30, May 1 (MCC won by six wickets) b E.A.Cordle 74 191-9d† 212-7d 1 not out 19 135-4 113 246.$ Essex v Cambridge University, Fenner‘s, May 2, 4, 5 (Match drawn) b R.D.V.Knight 117 252† 204 did not bat - 34-1 256 247. Essex v Warwickshire, Edgbaston, May 6, 7, 8 (Match drawn) not out 58 268-5d 327-6d b L.R.Gibbs 13 185-9 134-6d 1 248. Essex v Somerset, Taunton, May 9, 11, 12 (Match drawn) c D.J.S.Taylor b A.A.Jones 1 230 199 1 25