Gerard Rotherham

Infobox cricketer biography
playername = Gerard Rotherham


country = England
fullname = Gerard Alexander Rotherham
nickname =
dayofbirth = 28
monthofbirth = 5
yearofbirth = 1899
placeofbirth = Coventry, Warwickshire
countryofbirth = England
dayofdeath = 31
monthofdeath = 1
yearofdeath = 1985
placeofdeath = Bakewell, Derbyshire
countryofdeath = England
heightft =
heightinch =
heightm =
batting = Right-handed
bowling = Right arm medium
role = All-rounder

club1 = Cambridge University
year1 = 1919-1920
club2 = Warwickshire
year2 = 1919-1921
club3 = Wellington
year3 = 1928/29

type1 = First-class
debutdate1 = May 21
debutyear1 = 1919
debutfor1 = Cambridge University
debutagainst1 = Australian Imperial Forces
lastdate1 = January 22
lastyear1 = 1929
lastfor1 = Wellington
lastagainst1 = Auckland

deliveries = balls
columns = 1
column1 = FC
matches1 = 65
runs1 = 1801
bat avg1 = 18.76
100s/50s1 = 0/7
top score1 = 84*
deliveries1 = 9556
wickets1 = 180
bowl avg1 = 28.36
fivefor1 = 8
tenfor1 = 0
best bowling1 = 7/69
catches/stumpings1 = 48/-

date = August 23
year = 2007
source = http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21292/21292.html CricketArchive

Gerard Alexander Rotherham, born at Coventry on May 28, 1899 and died at Bakewell, Derbyshire on January 31, 1985, was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and Warwickshire in England and for Wellington in New Zealand.

But Rotherham's chief cricket fame was achieved as a schoolboy at Rugby School, where his record as a fast-medium bowler led to him being named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in the 1918 edition of Wisden, at a time when first-class cricket was suspended for the First World War.

Rotherham's later first-class career lasted only a few seasons. He got a Blue at Cambridge in both 1919 and 1920, when his swashbuckling lower-order batting was almost as valuable as his increasingly wayward bowling. In 1921, he had a full season of county cricket with Warwickshire, and this time the bowling was more valuable than the batting, and he took 88 wickets in the season. But at the end of the season he moved to New Zealand, where he made just a few appearances for Wellington in 1928-29.

External links

* [http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/21/21292/21292.html Cricketarchive profile]