Richard Fowler (cricketer)

Richard Harold Fowler (5 March 1887 – 27 October 1970) was an English first-class cricketer who played in four matches for Worcestershire in 1921.

Richard Fowler
Cricket information
BattingRight-handed batsman
BowlingRight arm fast-medium
International information
National side
  • English
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 4
Runs scored 72
Batting average 12.00
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 35
Balls bowled 192
Wickets 7
Bowling average 15.00
5 wickets in innings 1
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 5-33
Catches/stumpings 3/0
Source: Cricinfo

Fowler was a clergyman, and after taking career-best figures of 5-33 against Gloucestershire at Stourbridge was informed that he would have been no-balled had he not had that vocation. [1]

He was born in Islington, London, and died aged 83 in Clent, Worcestershire.

References

  1. Obituaries in 1970. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1972.


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