deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting fullname birth_place column role source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
2 8 february 1985 1 2/2 1928 2011 30 september 1905 & ndash ; england northampton , northamptonshire , england essex & ndash ; right-handed charles john manning watts kislingbury , northamptonshire , england first-class wicket-keeper http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22342.html cricinfo 1905 9 30 yes 119 & ndash ; & ndash ; / & ndash ; 8 charles watts -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

charles watts -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

charles john manning watts -lrb- 30 september 1905 -- 8 february 1985 -rrb- was an english cricketer .
watts was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper .
he was born in kislingbury , northamptonshire and educated at repton school , where he played for the school cricket team .
watts later attended the royal military college , sandhurst , as a gentlemen cadet , where he graduated and was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant into the northamptonshire regiment .
he made his first-class debut for essex against leicestershire in the 1928 county championship .
he made 7 further first-class appearances for essex in that season , the last of which came against lancashire .
in his 8 first-class matches , he scored 119 runs at an average of 10.81 , with a high score of 41 .
behind the stumps he took 2 catches and made 2 stumpings .
continuing his military career , he was promoted to lieutenant on 4 august 1929 .
he served in british malaya in 1935 , where he was granted the local -lrb- temporary -rrb- rank of captain while serving there , a rank he held until 1937 .
he later saw active service in the second world war , holding the rank of major by the war 's end as an officer of the suffolk regiment .
he died in northampton , northamptonshire on 8 february 1985 .
