Dennis Brookes, born October 29, 1915, Kippax, Leeds, was a cricketer who played for Northamptonshire and in one test match for England. October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 63 days remaining. ... Leeds Coat Of Arms Map sources for Leeds at grid reference SE297338 Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in Yorkshire in the north of England. ... A cricketer is a term used to refer to a person who plays cricket. ... Northamptonshire Cricket Club is one of the 18 major counties which make up the English domestic cricket structure. ... Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. ...

Brookes, a Yorkshireman, joined Northamptonshire in 1934 and in a very weak team, which failed to win a game for four years from May 1935, he quickly became a regular. His batting really developed, though, after the Second World War and for the next 10 years he was at or near the top of the national batting averages. He was unlucky to play in no more than one test match: the one was on the 1947-48 tour of the West Indies, and his tour was ended when he chipped a bone immediately after the first Test. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. ...

As senior professional, Brookes frequently stood in for Freddie Brown as Northamptonshire captain in the early 1950s, and when Brown retired in 1953, Brookes took over, the first professional captain of the county. He led the team to its highest-ever placing in the County Championship, second, in 1957. He became a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1957. He retired in 1959 and was later county coach and a local magistrate. (For the science-fiction author, see Fredric Brown) Frederick (Freddie) Richard Brown (born in Lima, Peru on 16 December 1910, died in Ramsbury, Wiltshire on 24 July 1991) was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Surrey, Northamptonshire and England. ... In cricket, the captain is the most important member of the team. ... The County Championship is the domestic first class cricket competition in the United Kingdom, mainly in England. ... The Wisden Cricketers of the Year award is made annually in the pages of the Wisden Cricketers Almanack yearbook. ... A magistrate is a judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. ...