Claude Buckenham

Percy Buckenham

Personal information
Full name	Claude Percival Buckenham
Born	16 January 1876(1876-01-16) Herne Hill, London, England
Died	23 February 1937(1937-02-23) (aged 61) Dundee, Scotland
Batting style	Right-handed batsman
Bowling style	Right-arm fast
Role	Opening bowler
International information
National side	England
Test debut (cap 165)	1 January 1910 v South Africa
Last Test	9 March 1910 v South Africa
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1899–1914	Essex
Career statistics
Competition	Tests	First-class
Matches	4	307
Runs scored	43	5641
Batting average	6.14	14.50
100s/50s	–/–	2/12
Top score	17	124
Balls bowled	1182	52148
Wickets	21	1150
Bowling average	28.23	25.31
5 wickets in innings	1	85
10 wickets in match	–	17
Best bowling	5/115	8/33
Catches/stumpings	2/–	172/–
Source: CricketArchive, 20 June 2009

Olympic medal record
Competitor for  United Kingdom
Men's football
Gold	1900 Paris	Team Competition

Claude Percival Buckenham, (born January 16, 1876, at Herne Hill, London, and died February 23, 1937, at Dundee, Scotland), was a cricketer who played for Essex and England.

Tall and gangling, and with a toothcomb moustache, Percy Buckenham was a fast bowler and a useful lower order batsman. He played for Essex from 1899 to 1914, but suffered, particularly in his early years, from slipshod fielding which meant, according to his obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, he was more expensive than he perhaps deserved.^[1] His career average, at more than 25, is high for the era in which he played.

The 1906 season was the first in which he took more than 100 wickets, and he played several representative matches over the next few English seasons without breaking into the Test match team in England. His only Test experience came on the 1909-10 tour to South Africa, under the captaincy of H. D. G. Leveson Gower. In four Tests, he took 21 wickets at 28 runs apiece, including five for 115 in the first South African innings of the third Test at Johannesburg. But though he had his most productive season in 1911, with 134 first-class wickets, he was considered too old for the 1911-12 tour to Australia.^[2]

Buckenham was a good amateur footballer and played county soccer for Essex. He played right-back for the Upton Park F.C. team that won the inaugural Olympic football tournament in 1900.

Buckenham retired in 1914 to become professional at the Scottish club Forfarshire and after serving with Royal Garrison Artillery in the First World War he became cricket coach at Repton School.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Obituary, 1937". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1938 ed.). Wisden. pp. 936–937. 
2. ^ Christopher Martin-Jenkins. The Complete Who's Who of Test Cricketers (1980 ed.). Orbis. p. 27. 

• Buchanan, Ian British Olympians. Guinness Publishing (1991) ISBN 0-85112-952-8

Persondata
Name	Buckenham, Claude
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	16 January 1876
Place of birth	Herne Hill, London
Date of death	23 February 1937
Place of death	Dundee