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