Lives in Cricket No 37 - William Clarke

119 Career Statistics First-Class Cricket: Seven or more wickets in an innings (25) Analysis For Opponent Venue Season ?-?-?-9 Nottinghamshire Kent² Town Malling 1840 68-25-98-7 Nottinghamshire England¹ Trent Bridge 1842 32.1-?-?-7 Nottinghamshire MCC² Lord’s 1843 28-14-28-7 Nottinghamshire MCC² Trent Bridge 1843 18.2-14-17-7 Nottinghamshire Sussex¹ Trent Bridge 1843 ?-?-?-7 North MCC¹ Lord’s 1844 27-11-29-9 Nottinghamshire Kent¹ Trent Bridge 1845 29-8-40-7 Nottinghamshire Kent² Trent Bridge 1845 40-?-?-7 England Kent² Canterbury 1845 50-14-89-7 North MCC¹ Trent Bridge 1845 ?-?-?-7 Suffolk MCC² Lord’s 1848 ?-?-?-7 North MCC¹ Lord’s 1848 29-18-29-7 All-England Eleven Hampshire¹ Southampton 1849 34.3-15-46-7 All-England Eleven Hampshire² Southampton 1849 ?-?-?-7 England Surrey² The Oval 1849 24.2-16-11-7 North South¹ Leamington Spa 1849 20-?-34-9 All-England Eleven Yorkshire¹ Sheffield 1850 ?-?-?-7 Players Gentlemen² Lord’s 1850 28-11-35-8 All-England Eleven MCC and Lord’s 1851 Metropolitan Clubs ?-?-?-7 All-England Eleven MCC² Lord’s 1851 49-?-51-7 North South¹ The Oval 1851 30-11-47-8 North South² The Oval 1851 40-9-80-8 All-England Eleven Yorkshire¹ Sheffield 1852 44-16-80-9 All-England Eleven Yorkshire² Sheffield 1852 36-17-47-8 Nottinghamshire Surrey² Trent Bridge 1854 Note: The index figures ¹ and ² above indicate the innings in which the feat was achieved. Principal Matches The details below relate to the important matches played by Clarke starting from his debut for the Nottingham Old Club in 1816, aged 17. He will have played in other matches for which researchers may yet discover details, or which went unrecorded. Principal Matches: Batting and Fielding Season M I NO Runs HS Ave Ct 1816 1 1 0 0 0 0.00 0 1817 2 3 0 4 3 1.33 0 1818 1 1 0 6 6 6.00 3 1821 2 3 0 32 18 10.66 0 1822 3 4 0 61 45 15.25 2 1823 2 3 0 28 23 9.33 6 1825 1 2 0 15 13 7.50 0 1826 1 2 0 13 8 6.50 0 1827 2 3 0 31 17 10.33 2 1828 3 6 0 67 31 11.16 3 1829 4 8 1 107 41 15.28 1 1830 1 2 0 70 59 35.00 1