deliveries columns catches/stumpings year tenfor bowling country fivefor batting name lasttestyear column international testdebutdate source date runs testdebutyear wickets lasttestdate s/s matches article_title
2095 42101 2 3 / - 126 / - 1920 - 27 right-arm offbreak english 2 93 right-hand bat cec parkin 1924 tests first-class true 17 december http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/18428.html cricinfo 17 december 160 2425 1920 32 1048 14 june - / - - / 4 10 197 cec parkin

cec parkin

cecil harry `` cec '' parkin -lrb- 18 february 1886 , eaglescliffe , stockton-on-tees , county durham -- 15 june 1943 , cheetham hill , manchester , lancashire -rrb- was an english cricketer who played in 10 tests from 1920 to 1924 and 157 games for lancashire county cricket club .
he played one first-class match for yorkshire in 1906 , before it was discovered that he was born twenty yards outside the county boundary .
despite the fact that many cricketers had appeared for yorkshire who were not born inside the county boundaries he then spent the next 8 years playing league and minor county cricket .
he then joined lancashire and played at old trafford from 1914 to 1926 , although four of these years were lost to the great war .
he was a wisden cricketer of the year in 1924 .
he was a mercurial , inventive off spinner who used flight , guile and turn to dismiss batsman and demanded attacking fields from his captains .
he could be expensive , as he disdained any policy of containment against good batsmen on flat pitches , but at his best he could run through any side .
he took 14 leicestershire county cricket club wickets on his debut for the red rose at liverpool in 1914 , when he was already 28 , and did not become a full-time cricketer until the age of 34 in 1921 , the year he topped the test averages against warwick armstrong 's mighty australian side .
before then he had combined his saturday league commitments with appearances for lancashire .
he took 14 wickets in the 1919 roses match at old trafford at just 10 apiece and , in the first innings of the gentlemen v players match of 1920 dismissed 9 gentlemen at the oval , six clean bowled , for 85 .
he was picked for england 's tour of australia that winter and took 5 for 60 in the first innings at adelaide in a difficult rubber for the england team .
he was england 's most successful bowler in all first class games on the tour however , with 73 at 21 each .
in all he played 8 tests against australia without ever appearing on the winning side .
he is one of the few players to have opened both the bowling and batting , against australia at old trafford , for england , a remarkable performance by a spin bowler who played only 10 games .
he was known as a great character in the dressing room but his outspoken views often saw him clash with the cricketing authorities of the time .
he was dropped from the england team when he criticised england captain arthur gilligan in a newspaper article and fell out with the lancashire committee two years later which ended his first class career .
after leaving lancashire he returned to league cricket and continued to prove a heavy wicket taker for many years .
he was lancashire 's best bowler in 1923 , taking 209 wickets at 16.94 , and 1924 , 200 at just 13.67 , but in 1925 took ` only ' 121 wickets at 20.79 .
ted mcdonald and dick tyldesley began to dominate the attack for the powerful lancashire team as they sought to end yorkshire 's dominance of the county championship .
his benefit match with middlesex in 1925 realised # 1,880 and in 1926 he played in eleven county matches , taking 36 wickets at 15.13 and helped lancashire win the championship for the first time since 1904 .
sadly a dispute with the powers that be saw his first class career end at 40 .
he was equally unorthodox and inventive as a batsman , if rather less skilled .
he wrote a lively account of his cricketing days and was , characteristically , a talented conjurer and magician .
he used to experiment with new deliveries by bowling them at his wife in the nets and occasionally sent her home with bruised fingers .
