lastagainst lastdate debutyear columns catches/stumpings year hidedeliveries birth_date debutagainst country club batting living name fullname debutfor birth_place column debutdate role source type lastyear runs date lastfor s/s matches article_title
gloucestershire 2 september 1967 1 53/7 1967 1968 2013 true 14 june 1943 indians england oxford university somerset right-handed , tail-end true dickie brooks richard alan brooks oxford university edgware , middlesex , england first-class 13 may wicketkeeper http://www.cricketarchive.com/archive/players/3/3456/3456.html cricketarchive first-class 1968 317 1943 6 14 yes somerset 0/0 35 dickie brooks

dickie brooks

richard alan -lrb- dickie -rrb- brooks , born at edgware , middlesex on 14 june 1943 , was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for oxford university and somerset .
a lower-order right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper , brooks 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 .
