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

Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i Championship 14 2 49 0 - - - Other Essex matches 2 1 12 1 1-12 12.00 - Season 16 3 61 1 1-12 61.00 - Career (6b) 180.5 28 } 974 19 4-50 51.26 - (8b) 40.3 2 1972/73 – MCC in India and Pakistan Of the fourteen matches Fletcher played on tour eight were Test matches, five in India and three in Pakistan. This was the first time he had enjoyed an extended run in the England side and it paid handsome dividends. He averaged 44.41 in the Tests, scoring his maiden Test century in the fifth Test against India having been left on 97 not out in the third Test. He topped the averages for the tour with 51.82. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 328. MCC v Board President’s XI, Hyderabad, December 5, 6, 7 (Match drawn) c S.Abid Ali b E.A.S.Prasanna 31 321-7d 5 1 19 0 317-5d 1 2 0 10 0 84-2 329. MCC v Central Zone, Indore, December 9, 10, 11 (Match drawn) c S.Bhagwandas b K.R.Gattani 5 261-9d 255-3d 1 b A.S.Durani 56 209-4d† 111-4 330.$ MCC v North Zone, Alexandra Ground, Amritsar , December 15, 16, 17 (Match drawn) not out 120 285-3d† - - - - 166-7d did not bat - 123-4 6 1 12 1 Gokul Inder Dev b 147-8 331. ENGLAND v INDIA, New Delhi, December 20, 21, 23, 24, 25 (England won by six wickets) b B.S.Chandrasekhar 2 200 173 c A.L.Wadekar b B.S.Bedi 0 208-4 233 1 332. ENGLAND v INDIA, Calcutta, December 30, 31, January 1, 3, 4 (India won by 28 runs) c S.M. Gavaskar b E.A.S.Prasanna 16 174 210 lbw b B.S.Bedi 5 163 155 3 333.$ MCC v South Zone, Bangalore, January 6, 7, 8 (Match drawn) not out 100 299-5d - - - - 274-5d 1 did not bat - 104-1 13 2 62 1 S.Abid Ali c and b 214-7d 1 334. ENGLAND v INDIA, Madras, January 12, 13, 14, 16, 17 (India won by four wickets) not out 97 242† 316 c C.P.S.Chauhan b B.S.Bedi 21 159 86-6 335. MCC v East Zone, Jamshedpur, January 20, 21, 22 (Match drawn) did not bat - 306-5d 148 not out 13 99-4d 176-8 1 336.$ ENGLAND v INDIA, Kanpur, January 25, 27, 28, 29, 30 (Match drawn) c B.S.Chandrasekhar b B.S.Bedi 58 397 357 1 186-6 337.$ ENGLAND v INDIA, Bombay, February 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 (Match drawn) lbw b B.S.Bedi 113 480 448 1 did not bat - 67-2 244-5d 338. ENGLAND v PAKISTAN, Lahore, March 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 (Match drawn) c Wasim Bari b Pervez Sajjad 55 355 422 c Majid Khan b Intikhab Alam 12 306-7d 124-3 339. MCC v President’s XI, Rawalpindi, March (9) 10, 11, 12, 13 (MCC won by four wickets) c Taslim Arif b Nazir Khan 18 147 216-8d 1 lbw b Nazir Khan 5 158-6 88 1 32