Lives in Cricket No 10 - John Shepherd

8-0-33-4 Gloucestershire Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge 1984 12-3-20-4 Gloucestershire Staffordshire Stone 1984 Note: Shepherd’s 4-25 against Derbyshire in 1978 was in the Benson and Hedges Cup final. Senior cricket: Batting, Bowling and Fielding The table below summarises Shepherd’s appearances in ‘senior’ cricket. The matches covered include all his first-class and List A limited-overs matches; International Cavaliers matches in England from 1965 to 1970; Fenner and Tilcon Trophy matches in 1973, 1980 and 1982; World Cup ‘warm-up’ matches in 1975 and 1979; County Second Eleven championship matches and limited-overs matches for Kent in 1965 to 1970 and for Gloucestershire in 1985 to 1989; matches on Gloucestershire’s tour of Sri Lanka in 1986/87, and for Footscray in Melbourne grade cricket in 1976/77 and 1977/78. Batting Bowling M R Ave Wkt Ave Ct/St 1964/65 West Indies 1 55 27.50 2 55.50 - 1965 England 21 745 28.65 35 26.34 17/1 1966 England 27 937 31.23 65 19.75 28 1967 England 36 1084 26.43 57 22.80 41 1967/68 West Indies 2 36 18.00 1 139.00 1 1968 England 31 1290 30.00 98 19.34 27 1968/69 West Indies 4 186 26.57 7 28.85 6 1969 England 23 287 13.04 38 26.71 9 1970 England 44 1046 22.73 112 25.97 27 1970/71 West Indies 6 118 14.75 17 23.82 9 1971 England 49 1272 24.00 99 22.68 34 1972 England 46 620 18.23 88 26.85 17 1973 England 47 1082 24.04 122 22.54 19 1973/74 South Africa 7 169 24.14 15 37.73 4 1974 England 48 950 24.35 91 27.05 13 1974/75 South Africa 11 485 44.09 30 24.86 5 1975 England 41 1129 30.51 83 24.93 16 1975/76 South Africa 14 394 20.73 26 28.19 7 1976 England 38 1410 36.15 72 27.80 14 1976/77 Australia 10 458 38.17 32 14.34 4 1977 England 37 766 21.27 100 21.61 21 1977/78 Australia 11 449 37.42 48 10.56 5 1978 England 41 1165 32.36 78 26.23 22 1979 England 37 765 23.18 63 24.79 16 1980 England 38 551 25.04 64 26.00 15 1981 England 33 451 17.34 47 33.57 8 1982 England 43 857 22.55 92 30.32 18 1983 England 44 1221 32.13 103 26.54 18 1984 England 44 1156 24.50 97 30.15 16 1985 England 20 164 12.61 17 34.29 8 1986 England 10 260 37.14 10 28.80 9 1986/87 Sri Lanka 7 4 4.00 2 58.50 1 1987 England 16 210 17.50 21 25.47 10 1989 England 2 32 16.00 - - 1 Totals 889 21804 25.74 1832 25.35 466/1 Notes: The figures for the ‘England’ season of 1983 include the Benson and Hedges Cup match Scotland v Gloucestershire, played in Glasgow on 17 May, and those for the ‘England’ season of 1969, the famous one-day match Ireland v West Indies at Sion Mills on 2 July. Shepherd’s only stumping was in the Second Eleven Championship match Kent v Middlesex at Hesketh Park, Dartford on 9 128 Career Statistics