Charles Tarbox

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]

Charles Tarbox
Personal information
Full nameCharles Victor Tarbox
Born(1891 -07-02)2 July 1891
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England
Died15 June 1978(1978-06-15) (aged 86)
Peacehaven, Sussex, England
NicknamePercy
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight arm medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1921—1929Worcestershire
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

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
  1. Obituary. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1979.
  2. "Worcestershire v Somerset". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2008.
  3. "Somerset v Worcestershire in 1921". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2008.
  4. "First-class Bowling in Each Season by Charles Tarbox". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2008.
  5. "Warwickshire v Worcestershire in 1925". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2008.
  6. "Nottinghamshire v Worcestershire in 1927". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2008.
  7. "Hertfordshire v Berkshire in 1931". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2008.
  8. "Charles Tarbox as Umpire in First-Class Matches". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2008.
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