Lives in Cricket No 9 - JH King

Teams He played 502 first-class matches for Leicestershire, 36 for MCC and fourteen for other sides, including one Test match for England. He played 55 matches v Yorkshire, 46 v Warwickshire, 45 v Derbyshire, 45 v Nottinghamshire, 43 v Lancashire and 40 v Hampshire. In Championship cricket he scored most runs v Hampshire (2,255 at 37.58) and Derbyshire (2,223 at 32.21). His best batting averages were 51.22 v Worcestershire (for 1,844 runs) and 45.00 v Glamorgan (for 585 runs). He took most wickets v Nottinghamshire (111 at 24.09) and Derbyshire (105 at 23.37). His best bowling averages were 14.72 v Somerset (for 18 wickets), 14.78 v South Africans (for 23 wickets), 17.20 v Glamorgan (for 25 wickets), 17.96 v Gloucestershire (for 28 wickets) and 19.40 v Northamptonshire (for 60 wickets). Grounds During his first-class career he played on 57 different grounds, of which eight were in Yorkshire and six in Leicestershire. His most productive were Aylestone Road (9,729 runs at 28.36, 491 wickets at 22.43), Lord’s (2,059 runs at 25.10, 111 wickets at 23.04), The Oval (1,088 runs at 30.22, 47 wickets at 25.74) and Southampton (1,085 runs at 54.25). At Grace Road his figures were 682 runs at 16.23 and 47 wickets at 33.02. Sources: Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack and cricketarchive.com Some Statistics 139 Timothy Cockroft, as a youngster, sent this record of his great-grandfather’s first-class cricket as part of a birthday card to King’s daughter, Margaret.