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Among his best feats were 9 for 36 against
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record of taking 100 wickets by 12 June and his aggregate of 219 victims 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 expensive.
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Gloucestershire's overs from one end. He is one of only three bowlers to bowl over 10,000 balls in a season multiple
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1924/1925 tour of South Africa — seen as at worst a very good "second eleven". Parker's bowling proved suitable for the matting wickets, but he did so little bowling in the five
Representative Matches that he only took 11 wickets for 198 runs. In fact, he played only one Test, at
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Gloucestershire's chief bowler in 1919. He took more wickets than ever before in a season, but was still expensive even when the dry weather was taken into account. However, from 1920 Parker became one of the best
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in 1903. However, he played only twice in first-class cricket before 1907. From then on, he played regularly as a medium-paced left-hand bowler, but despite several excellent performances, he was always overshadowed by
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Australian wickets of the 1920s and 1930s were totally unresponsive to his bowling, Parker was never even considered for a tour there. He did tour with private parties to the West Indies and on
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put a halt to county cricket. By 1914, Parker had not taken 100 wickets in a season and in his last two years was very expensive, suggesting that his was to be an insignificant career.
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Charlie Parker was the first player to take three hat-tricks in a single first-class season. He achieved this in 1924. His record was later equaled by
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In 1931, though already forty-eight — an age at which most cricketers even in that era had already retired — Parker equalled
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715:. London: John Wisden & Co. Ltd. p. 572.
660:. London: John Wisden & Co. Ltd. p. 142.
645:. London: John Wisden & Co. Ltd. p. 315.
380:(14 October 1882 – 11 July 1959) was an English
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980:H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers
775:. London: Playfair Books. p. 173.
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835:The Playfair Book of Cricket Records
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975:English cricketers of 1919 to 1945
675:. London: Pelham. pp. 96–97.
641:John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack
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378:Charles Warrington Leonard Parker
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1000:Cricketers from Gloucestershire
818:Caine, C. Stewart, ed. (1933).
756:Caine, C. Stewart, ed. (1926).
741:Pardon, Sydney H., ed. (1925).
726:Pardon, Sydney H., ed. (1923).
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656:Pardon, Sydney H., ed. (1920).
638:Pardon, Sydney H., ed. (1923).
990:C. I. Thornton's XI cricketers
620:Paul Edwards (28 April 2020).
483:County Cricket Ground, Bristol
441:took 125 wickets in 1920, 164
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477:for Gloucestershire against
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985:Lord Hawke's XI cricketers
970:S. B. Joel's XI cricketers
965:Cricketers from Cheltenham
945:Royal Air Force cricketers
940:Gloucestershire cricketers
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467:Tom Goddard
423:World War I
414:W. G. Grace
216:Runs scored
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190:Competition
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581:References
59:1882-10-14
893: at
795:BBC Books
540:in 1996.
522:Cranleigh
479:Yorkshire
388:, behind
382:cricketer
342:stumpings
251:Top score
166:1903–1935
142:Australia
137:Only Test
89:Cranleigh
67:Prestbury
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365:CricInfo
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451:in 1924
447:in 1922
443:in 1921
438:bowlers
430:officer
280:Wickets
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