Charlie Townsend England (Eng)
Batting style	Left-handed batsman (LHB)
Bowling type	Leg Break
	Tests	First-class
Matches	2	199
Runs scored	51	9,512
Batting average	17.00	30.29
100s/50s	0/0	21/40
Top score	38	224*
Balls bowled	{{{test balls}}}	{{{FC balls}}}
Wickets	3	725
Bowling average	25.00	23.11
5 wickets in innings	0	68
10 wickets in match	0	18
Best bowling	3/50	9/48
Catches/stumpings	0/0	193/0
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Charlie Townsend (Charles Lucas Townsend; born November 7, 1876, Bristol; died October 17, 1958, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England) was a Gloucestershire cricketer of the 1890s. Though hardly known today, for natural all-round ability Townsend could certainly bear comparison with the famous Gloucestershire trio of Grace, Jessop and Hammond. However, it is fair to say Townsend lacked the commitment to cricket required for the sustained success of those players, and his batting and bowling ability almost never came off fully in the one match. Shortcut: WP:D or WP:DAB Disambiguation in Wikipedia and Wikimedia is the process of resolving the conflict that occurs when articles about two or more different topics have the same natural title. ... There are a few people with the name Charles Townsend: Charles Champlain Townsend (1841-1910), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania Charles Elroy Townsend (1856-1924), U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Michigan This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise... November 7 is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 54 days remaining. ... 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... View from Cumberland Basin of the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the Avon Gorge Bristol (IPA: ) is a city, unitary authority and ceremonial county in South West England, 115 miles (185 km) west of London and between the cities of Bath, Gloucester and Newport. ... October 17 is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Stockton-on-Tees is an industrial town and port on the River Tees in north-eastern England. ... Durham (IPA: locally, in RP) is a small city and main settlement of the City of Durham district of County Durham in North East England. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... A cricketer is a term used to refer to a person who plays cricket. ... The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no... In cricket, an all-rounder is a player who is good at both batting and bowling. ... William Gilbert WG 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. ... Gilbert Laird Jessop (born May 19, 1874, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England; died May 11, 1955, Fordington, Dorset, England) was an English cricket player, known as the fastest run-scorer cricket has ever known. ... 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. ... For the insect, see Cricket (insect). ...

Townsend first emerged as a leg break bowler from Clifton College at the age of 16 in 1893. He took 21 wickets in four games and showed, despite his very slight build, the ability to get through a lot of bowling and spin the ball prodigiously from leg. In one innings against Middlesex, he bowled 70 five-ball overs (equivalent to 58 six-ball overs). The following year, Townsend's record was modest though Grace gave him a good deal of bowling on soft pitches, and he was seen as not physically strong enough for county cricket by most critics of the day. Animation of a leg break. ...

It was in 1895 that the sensation of Townsend's career occurred. Schoolwork meant he played only one match up to the 21 July - taking only two wickets for 94 - yet in Gloucestershire's remaining 11 matches he took 122 wickets. With increased physical strength, Townsend spun the ball so much on the treacherous pitches upon which almost all these games were played that, though he was often freely hit, even the best batsmen inevitably succumbed to viciously turning balls. Townsend's dominance was such that he bowled over 95 percent of Gloucestershire's overs from one end during these matches!

The fact that Townsend was never tested on good pitches during his amazing spell in 1895 was considered insignificant at the time. However, during May, June and July 1896, when the weather was consistently dry and pitches very true, Townsend proved extremely ineffective. Though when the rain finally came he took 38 wickets in the last four matches, it was clear he was an easy bowler to play on firm pitches. The following year, Townsend's bowling was expensive even on the few rain-affected pitches because he was sacrificing accuracy to gain spin, but his batting developed so much that he attained the status of an all-rounder, scoring a maiden century against Yorkshire and winning a critical match against Nottinghamshire. Townsend was classically stylish, left-handed batsman, who was able to hit well despite his slender build. His off-side strokes were particularly effective, and his driving allowed him to score at a consistent pace throughout his major innings. Warwickshire batsman Mike Powell A batsman in the sport of cricket is, depending on context: Any player in the act of batting. ...

In 1898, Townsend bowled with deadly effect on a sticky wicket at Lord's to win the opening match against Middlesex, and, though on the hard pitches his bowling was utterly harmless, his skill as a batsman reached far beyond that of previous years and he hit five excellent centuries - the highest being 159 against Lancashire. When the rain returned in August, he lost his batting, but his bowling was - remarkably - even more irresistible than in 1895. In five matches, he obtained the following analyses: The Media Centre at Lords Cricket Ground Lords Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in St Johns Wood in London. ...

• v Kent at Cheltenham: 275 balls; 15 maidens; 13 wickets for 92 runs.
• v Warwickshire at Cheltenham: 389 balls: 12 maidens; 15 wickets for 205 runs.
• v Essex at Clifton College Close Ground: 336 balls; 15 maidens; 15 wickets for 141 runs.
• v Somerset at Taunton: 201 balls; 6 maidens; 12 wickets for 117 runs.
• v Surrey at Clifton College Close Ground: 332 balls; 17 maidens; 9 wickets for 160 runs.
  • Total for five matches: 1533 balls; 65 maidens; 64 wickets for 715 runs (average 11.17 runs per wicket).

Townsend was rewarded for his splendid all-round feats with selection as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year, and his jump to the front rank of batsmen continued in the dry summer of 1899, when he made nine centuries, including a brilliant 224 against Essex. Although his bowling had become very expensive even when the pitches helped him, Townsend was chosen for his only Tests against Australia. He did very modestly in these matches, but toured America with a team led by K.S. Ranjitsinhji that winter. In 1900, though he only took 57 first-class wickets, Townsend again batted very well despite playing no really large innings, showing greater ability than before to counter the spinning ball on treacherous pitches, notably late in the season at Cheltenham. The Wisden Cricketers of the Year award is made annually in the pages of the Wisden Cricketers Almanack yearbook. ... A Test match in progress. ... Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji (10 September 1872–2 April 1933) was an Indian nobleman and Test cricketer who played for the English cricket team. ... First-class cricket matches are those between international teams or the highest standard of domestic teams in which teams have two innings each. ...

However, from 1901 Townsend began devoting most of the summer to studying law and later practising as a solicitor. This meant that he could only play a handful of matches each season until 1906. Though he hardly bowled at all in these games, if anything his batting skill had increased, as shown by his 147 on a fairly difficult pitch against Sussex in 1902 and a brilliant 214 against Worcestershire in 1906. From 1907 he was appointed as Official Receiver at Stockton and could play only exceptionally rarely (though he would have played in the Cheltenham festival in 1908 but for a strain). Innings of 61 against a formidable Yorkshire attack in his only appearance for 1907, 126 against the Australians in 1909 and an astonishing 84 (after Gloucestershire at been dismissed for a record low 22 in their first innings) to beat Somerset in 1920 showed him to be much ahead in class of other Gloucestershire batsmen even when out of practice. His last appearances in 1921 and 1922 yielded little success, and he was never involved in the game after that. Lady Justice or Justitia is a personification of the moral force that underlies the legal system (particularly in Western art). ... A solicitor is a type of lawyer in many common law jurisdictions, such as the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, but not the United States (in the United States the word has a quite different meaning—see below). ...

His son, David Townsend, represented England at Test cricket, and also played for Oxford University and for Durham when the county was not first-class. David Charles Humphery Townsend (born April 20, 1912, Norton, County Durham, died January 27, 1997, Norton, County Durham) was an English cricketer who played in 3 Tests in 1935. ... Oxford University Cricket Club (now subsumed into the Oxford University Centre of Cricketing Excellence) is a first-class cricket team. ... Durham County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Durham. ...

External links

• First-class batting record
• First-class bowling record
  
• Cricinfo page on Charlie Townsend