Dickie Brooks
Appearance
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Full name | Richard Alan Brooks | ||||||||||||||
Born | Edgware, Middlesex, England | 14 June 1943||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
Role | Wicketkeeper | ||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
1967 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||
1968 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||
First-class debut | 13 May 1967 Oxford University v Indians | ||||||||||||||
Last First-class | 2 September 1968 Somerset v Gloucestershire | ||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 15 September 2013 |
Richard Alan Brooks (born 14 June 1943) at Edgware, Middlesex, known as Dickie Brooks is an English former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Somerset.
Brooks was educated at Quintin School in St John's Wood and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[1][2] A lower-order right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper, he won a Blue for cricket in 1967, and was then offered a contract with Somerset, the county having just parted company with its regular wicketkeeper Geoff Clayton. Brooks kept wicket tidily for Somerset for the whole of the 1968 season, but at the end of it he was offered a teaching post at Bradfield College and gave up the first-class game.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Wisden 1968, p. 351.
- ^ Dickie Brooks at CricketArchive (subscription required)
- ^ Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1968 and 1969 editions.
Categories:
- 1943 births
- Living people
- English cricketers
- Oxford University cricketers
- Somerset cricketers
- Berkshire cricketers
- People educated at Quintin Kynaston School
- Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
- Cricketers from the London Borough of Barnet
- Wicket-keepers
- People from Edgware
- English cricket biography, 1940s birth stubs