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Charlie Parker (in full Charles Warrington Leonard Parker) was an English cricketer who stands as the third highest wicket taker in the history of first class cricket, behind only Wilfred Rhodes and Tich Freeman. A cricketer is a term used to refer to a person who plays cricket. ...
Wilfred Rhodes (born October 29, 1877, North Moor, Kirkheaton, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire; died July 8, 1973, Branksome Park, Bournemouth) was one of the greatest cricketers of the twentieth century. ...
Tich Freeman (born Alfred Percy Freeman May 17, 1888 - January 28, 1965) was a Kent leg spin bowler and the only man to take 300 wickets in an English season. ...
Born in Prestbury, Gloucestershire on October 14, 1882 (earlier sources say 1884 but this has been disproved), Parker took no serious attention to cricket in his childhood, preferring to concentrate on golf. He only took to cricket around 1900 and was recommended to Gloucestershire by W. G. Grace in 1903. However, he played only twice in first-class cricket before 1907. From then on, he played regularly, and despite several excellent performances, he was always overshadowed by George Dennett until World War I put a halt to county cricket. By 1914, Parker had not taken 100 wickets in a season and his last two years had been very expensive, suggesting that his was to be an insignificant career. Gloucestershire (pronounced glostersher or sometimes glostersheer) is a ceremonial and administrative county in southwest England. ...
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William Gilbert Grace (July 18, 1848–October 23, 1915) was an English cricketer who, by his extraordinary skills, made cricket perhaps the first modern spectator sport, and who developed most of the techniques of modern batting. ...
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George Dennett (in full Edward George Dennett and sometimes erroneously just Edward Dennett) was a left arm spinner for Gloucestershire between 1903 and 1926, and one of the best bowlers never to play Test cricket. ...
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In 1919, with Dennett serving as a officer in the Army, Parker was forced to become Gloucestershire's chief bowler. He took more wickets than ever before in a season, but he was still expensive even when the dry weather was taken into account. However, from 1920 Parker became one of the best left arm spin bowlers in England. A little quicker than most of his type (thus harder to hit), on rain affected or crumbling pitches he was almost unplayable due to his vicious spin which could hit off stump from outside leg. Though helped by appalling batting sides for much of his success, Parker took 125 wickets in 1920, 167 in 1921, 206 in 1922, 204 in 1924, and headed the first-class averages with 222 in 1925. This success reflected Parker's ability to get through huge amounts of bowling - over 85 percent of Gloucestershire's overs (from one end) in 1927 and even more overs in 1926. In the military, a commissioned officer is a member of the service who derives authority directly from a sovereign power, and as such holds a commission from that power. ...
In the sport of cricket, left-arm orthodox spin is the equivalent of off spin bowling, but bowled with the left hand. ...
A bowler in the sport of cricket is usually a player whose speciality is bowling. ...
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Among his best feats were 9 for 36 against Yorkshire in 1922, 10 for 79 against Somerset in 1921, 17 for 56 against Essex in 1925, and 16 for 109 against Middlesex in 1930. That year he took 7 for 54 against the Australians in a famous tied match, and from 1929 to 1931 formed with Tom Goddard the most lethal bowling combination in county cricket, aided by the brilliant close fielding of Wally Hammond. Walter Reginald Hammond (June 19, 1903 - July 1, 1965), often known as Wally Hammond, was an English cricketer, who played for Gloucestershire and England, primarily as a batsman, in a career that straddled (and was disrupted by) the Second World War. ...
In 1931, though already forty-eight - an age at which most cricketers even in that era had already retired - Charlie Parker equalled Jack Hearne's record of taking 100 wickets by June 12, and his total aggregate was the second highest of his career. However, age finally caught up with Parker in 1932 after a promising beginning. Though he still spun the ball considerably, he lost his accuracy of length and consequently was very expensive. Because Gloucestershire had no support for him and Goddard, Parker continued to play until 1935, but never recovered his former powers. John Thomas Hearne (born May 3, 1867; died April 17, 1944) (known either as Jack Hearne or J.T. Hearne to avoid confusion with J.W. Hearne to whom he was only distantly related) was a Middlesex and England medium-fast bowler. ...
Because Australian wickets of the 1920s and 1930s were totally unresponsive to his bowling, Parker never toured abroad except with private parties to the West Indies. In fact, he played only one Test, at Old Trafford in 1921, where he took 2 for 32 on a wicket too slow to be difficult - though he was discarded at the last minute in 1926 and 1930. Old Trafford is an area of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. ...
As a batsman, he rarely accomplished much, though he nearly did the match double against Leicestershire in 1921 and Somerset in 1922.
After he retired in 1935, Parker became an umpire until World War II. Following the war, he coached cricket at Cranleigh almost up to his death on July 11, 1959. An umpire in cricket is a person who has the authority to make decisions on the cricket field, according to the Laws of Cricket. ...
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Cranleigh has long been associated with the unprovable title of Englands largest village: this settlement is part of the Waverley district of Surrey, and was until late Victorian times Cranley. The name is popularly believed to come from the large cranes breeding ground there; hence the crane on...
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