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

Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i Championship 15 5 83 2 2-64 41.50 - Other Essex matches 14 4 29 3 3-29 9.66 - Season 29 9 112 5 3-29 22.40 - Career (6b) 271.2 45 } 1379 31 4-50 44.48 - (8b) 46.3 2 1976/77 – MCC in India, Sri Lanka and Australia A very successful tour of India for England was not such a great success for Fletcher. He started the tour with a century in the team’s opening match but suffering from a sprained ankle, which was slow to recover, he did little else before the second innings of the last Test when he failed to find sufficient support in a chase for victory. As the tour moved on to Sri Lanka and to Australia for the Centenary Test, Fletcher was unable to find his form and was not to play Test cricket for a further four and a half years. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 444.$ MCC v West Zone, Poona, November 29, 30, December 1 (Match drawn) lbw b E.D.Solkar 118 585-5d - - - - 257 2 4 1 8 1 D.B.Vengsarkar c sub 82-3 445. MCC v North Zone, Jullundur, December 12, 13, 14 (Match drawn) b R.C.Shukla 4 389-6d 3 1 5 0 210-8d c Vedraj Chauhan b S.Madan Lal 3 161-5d 8 2 42 0 126-3 446. ENGLAND v INDIA, New Delhi, December 17, 18, 19, 21, 22 (England won by an innings and 25 runs) b B.S.Chandrasekhar 8 381 122 234 1 447. MCC v Combined Universities and Under 22 XI, Nagpur, January 8, 9, 10 (MCC won by 143 runs) lbw b R.R.Jadeja 24 237-4d 121 c R.R.Jadeja b D.R.Jadeja 8 131-8d 104 448. MCC v South Zone, Hyderabad, January 22, 23, 24 (Match drawn) c B.Reddy b A.V.Jayaprakash 1 401-9d 228-7d 107-2 449. ENGLAND v INDIA, Bangalore, January 28, 29, 30, February 1, 2 (India won by 140 runs) c Yajuvindra Singh b E.A.S.Prasanna 10 195 253 c Yajuvindra Singh b B.S.Chandrasekhar 1 177 259-9d 1 450. MCC v Bombay, Indore, February 5, 6, 7 (Match drawn) not out 65 308-4d 201-7d not out 19 112-2d 97-5 451. ENGLAND v INDIA, Wankhede Stadium, Bombay, February 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 (Match drawn) c G.R.Viswanath b B.S.Chandrasekhar 14 317 338 not out 58 152-7† 192 2 452. MCC v Sri Lanka, Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo, February 25, 26, 27, 28 (Match drawn) lbw b D.S.de Silva 18 360-6d 151 1 did not bat - 99-3d 210-6 453. ENGLAND v AUSTRALIA, Melbourne, March 12,13, 14, 16, 17 (Australia won by 45 runs) c R.W.Marsh b M.H.N.Walker 4 95 138 1 c R.W.Marsh b D.K.Lillee 1 417 419-9d 1 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches v India 3 5 1 91 58* 22.75 - 1 4 Test match v Australia 1 2 0 5 4 2.50 - - 2 Other matches 6 9 2 260 118 37.14 1 1 3 Tour 10 16 3 356 118 27.38 1 2 9 Career 453 762 107 25057 228* 38.25 44 144 413 42