- Charles Tarbox
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Charles Tarbox Personal information Full name Charles Victor Tarbox Born 2 July 1891
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, EnglandDied 15 June 1978 (aged 86)
Peacehaven, Sussex, EnglandNickname Percy Batting style Right-handed Bowling style Right arm medium Domestic team information Years Team 1921—1929 Worcestershire Career statistics Competition FC Matches 226 Runs scored 5,819 Batting average 15.85 100s/50s 2/19 Top score 109 Balls bowled 24,306 Wickets 375 Bowling average 35.34 5 wickets in innings 11 10 wickets in match 1 Best bowling 7-55 Catches/stumpings 122/0 Source: CricketArchive, 24 June 2008 Charles Victor Tarbox, sometimes known as "Percy"[1] (2 July 1891—15 June 1978) was an English cricketer who played over 200 first-class games for Worcestershire in the 1920s. He also played at minor counties level for Hertfordshire, and later still stood as a first-class umpire in both England and South Africa. Tarbox's career statistics were fairly modest, but as his obituary in Wisden noted, he frequently chipped in with a few useful runs or wickets, valuable commodities for the generally weak Worcestershire sides of the day.[1]
He achieved his best innings figures in his first season of 1921, in only the seventh match of his first-class career, when in June he claimed 7-55 against Somerset at Worcester.[2] A few weeks later, and against the same opponents, he achieved what was to prove his only ten-wicket match haul, picking up 4-126 and then 6-32 in a big Worcestershire victory at Taunton.[3] He ended 1921 with 629 runs at 17.97 and 47 wickets at 27.29.
Wisden said that Tarbox "never fulfilled the promise" of that first season.[1] However, he continued to put in useful performances and was generally a regular in the team. His most productive seasons with the ball were 1927 and 1928, when he took 81 and 79 wickets respectively.[4] As a batsman, the highlights were the only two centuries of his career: 103 not out against local rivals Warwickshire at Edgbaston in May 1925,[5] and 109 — in an innings in which the second highest score was 29 — against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge in July 1927.[6]
The 1929 season was a very poor one for Tarbox — he averaged under 12 with the bat and over 42 with the ball — and Worcestershire released him at the end of the summer.[1] That was the end of his first-class playing career, but he returned to his home county of Hertfordshire and played for them for several years in the Minor Counties Championship; for them he scored relatively few runs but took many wickets, including 6-13 against Berkshire in July 1931.[7]
After his last game for Hertfordshire in 1934, Tarbox became an umpire, and stood in over 150 English first-class games between 1936 and 1947. He then added another ten matches as an umpire in South Africa.[8]
Notes
- ^ a b c d Obituary. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1979.
- ^ "Worcestershire v Somerset". CricketArchive. http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/10/10147.html. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
- ^ "Somerset v Worcestershire in 1921". CricketArchive. http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/10/10205.html. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
- ^ "First-class Bowling in Each Season by Charles Tarbox". CricketArchive. http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/33/33182/f_Bowling_by_Season.html. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
- ^ "Warwickshire v Worcestershire in 1925". CricketArchive. http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/11/11449.html. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
- ^ "Nottinghamshire v Worcestershire in 1927". CricketArchive. http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/12/12429.html. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
- ^ "Hertfordshire v Berkshire in 1931". CricketArchive. http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/89/89109.html. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
- ^ "Charles Tarbox as Umpire in First-Class Matches". CricketArchive. http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/33/33182/Umpire_in_First-Class_Matches.html. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
References
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- 1891 births
- 1978 deaths
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