Bowerchalke CC Fixture Card 1961

Bowerchalke CC Fixture Card 1961
Comments
This fixture card was in Uncle David's collection and has been annotated with the results of some of the matches played that season, although not all.

As you can see there are a number of scribbles in the fixture card to reflect changes to the schedule after publication.

As you can also see from the front cover David Gulliver was captain and Robin Gulliver was vice captain. Mr Beckly was secretary and treasurer and Mr Case was President. There are some familiar names in the list of vice-presidents again with some top military connections!

Having seen a number of these fixture cards now it would be worth creating some sort of club officers list at some point, need to give that some more thought.

Summary of results

If you look closely you can see a summary of Bowerchalke CC's 1961 season: won 13, lost 2 and drew 1. There are two games recorded as 'C' presumably for 'cancelled'. If this is complete and accurate this summary implies that quite a few games were cancelled or the result was not recorded for some reason, including the whole of August and September. This needs looking into.

• April 29th 1961 versus Hale (home) won
• May 6th 1961 versus South Newton (away) cancelled
• May 13th 1961 versus Great Durnford (away) won
• May 20th 1961 versus Broadchalke (away) won
• May 22nd 1961 versus Poole Old Grammarians (home) won
• May 27th 1961 versus Little Durnford (away) draw
• June 3rd 1961 versus Great Durnford (away) won
• June 10th 1961 versus Amesbury (away) cancelled
• June 17th 1961 versus Breamore (home) won
• June 19th 1961 versus Trinity College Cambridge "Tom Tits" (home) won
• June 24th 1961 versus Agrarians (home) lost
• June 25th 1961 versus South Newton (away) won, note this was a Sunday.
• DATE UNKNOWN versus Bere Regis (NOT KNOWN) won
• July 1st 1961 versus Breamore (away) won
• July 8th 1961 versus St. Pauls (NOT KNOWN) lost
• July 9th 1961 versus Farley (NOT KNOWN but probably away as a Sunday) won
• July 15th 1961 NO FIXTURE LISTED although I wonder if the fixture was the one above versus Bere Regis? It's one of the few 'gaps' in the fixture list so I guess it's possible.
• July 22nd 1961 versus Fordingbridge (away) won
• July 29th 1961 versus Wiltshire Queries (home) won
• August 5th 1961 versus Wiltshire Queries (NOT KNOWN) no result recorded
• August 7th 1961 versus Old Parkstonians (home) no result recorded
• August 12th 1961 versus Little Durnford (home) no result recorded
• August 19th 1961 versus Fordingbridge (home) no result recorded
• September 2nd 1961 versus Poole Old Grammarians (POG) (home) no result recorded
• September 9th 1961 versus Broadchalke (home) no result recorded

May 22nd and August 7th were Mondays, presumably Bank Holiday Mondays. June 19th was also a Monday.

KeithG

A Match In Progress At Bowerchalke CC In The 1960s

Our mum produced this photograph out-of-the-blue one day!

It's actually tiny in size and this is a blown-up version but it's come out really well, I hope you agree!

You can see the wonderful tree-lined field, a sitescreen, a heavy looking roller and to the right of the roller that's where Grandad Gulliver used to stand just before tea.

Note also the fence surrounding the playing area (remember the cricket field was in the middle of a working field on the farm).

The umpire's stooped stance is quite something, don't think you'll see much of that in village cricket today.

We don't recognise any of the players unfortunately but maybe you do or perhaps you have some photographs yourself that you'd like to share. If so drop us an e-mail at bowerccmem@btinternet.com

KeithG

Bowerchalke CC Batting & Bowling Averages 1962

Handwritten Notes
In amongst various papers we've received relating to Bowerchalke CC (e.g. letters) was this document from 1962 summarising the batting and bowling averages for the season. The two images shown below are of the back and front of the same piece of headed notepaper.

The headed notepaper is titled Manor Farm, Bowerchalke, Salisbury with two 3-digit telephone numbers listed (removed from image) linked to the Broadchalke exchange.


Unfortunately, we don't have a copy of the 1962 Fixture Card, which is a shame as it would have been nice to marry the two documents together. However, this document is still very interesting and has some useful information in it. Let's take a closer look.

1962 Season Summary
Bowerchalke CC played 20 matches in the 1962 season. They won 14, lost 3, drew 2 and 1 game was abandoned.

1962 Batting Averages
Here are the details for each batsman listed:

• D Gulliver, 14 innings, 399 runs, 5 not outs, average 44.3
• J Gulliver (or it could be T Gulliver), 7 innings, 209 runs, 1 not out, average 34.1
• Robin Gulliver, 16 innings, 394 runs, 3 not outs, average 30.3
• J Sedgwick, 5 innings, 100 runs, 1 not out, average 25.0
• Richard Gulliver, 15 innings, 282 runs, 2 not outs, average 21.7
• G Lampert, 5 innings, 77 runs, 1 not out, average 19.2
• R Newman, 8 innings, 107 runs, 0 not outs, average 13.3
• G Tate, 13 innings, 110 runs, 3 not outs, average 11.0
• C Down, 5 innings, 31 runs, 1 not out, average 7.7
• R Clough, 8 innings, 36 runs, 0 not outs, average 4.5

Also batted:

• T. Feather 15, 2, 2, 1
• G Newman 3*, 11, 1*, 6
• R Pope 4*, 0
• M Down 3, 3, 0
• H Hardimann 0, 0, 4
• R Fry 4, 0
• A Gulliver 0, 12*
• J Dawkins 2 (or it could be I Dawkins)
• J Barter 1 (or it could be T Barter)

1962 Bowling Averages

Here are the details for each bowler listed:

• Richard Gulliver 294 overs, 44 wickets at an average of 6.6
• J Sedgwick 73 overs, 9 wickets at an average of 8.1
• D Gulliver 455 overs, 40 wickets at an average of 11.3
• G Tate 268 overs, 23 wickets at an average of 11.66
• R Newman 280 overs, 24 wickets at an average of 11.67
• Robin Gulliver 176 overs, 10 wickets at an average of 17.6

Also bowled:

• I Feather (or it could be T Feather) 23 overs, 0 wickets
• G Newman 40 overs, 2 wickets

Interesting Points

There's some interesting things about this information, including:

• The club used at least 19 players in the season which for a small village is quite something
• David Gulliver bowled over 450 overs over 20 games, that's an average of more than 22 overs per game and we know that at least one of those was abandoned
• David also scored more runs than anyone else (399) and topped the batting averages!
• At least 5 Gullivers played during the season with Richard topping the bowling averages and Robin scoring nearly 400 runs just being pipped by David.
• There are some other familiar names listed too (e.g. George Tate, Gordon Lampert, Ron and Gerald Newman, Bob Fry, Tim Barter, Reggie Clough and Chris and Maurice Down).
• J Sedgwick is Jerry Sedgwick, we believe.

Do you remember anything about this 1962 season or any of the Bowerchalke CC players listed here? If so please let us know by sending an e-mail to: bowerccmem@btinternet.com we look forward to hearing from you.

KeithG