Bertie Clarke

Bertie Clarke
	Bowler
International information
National side	West Indies;
Test debut (cap 46)	24 June 1939 v England
Last Test	19 August 1939 v England
Domestic team information
1937/38–1938/39	Barbados
1946–1949	Northamptonshire
1959–1960	Essex
Career statistics
	Source: CricketArchive, 1 March 2016

Carlos Bertram Clarke OBE (7 April 1918 – 14 October 1993) was a West Indian international cricketer who played in three Test matches in 1939. During the war when three-day cricket was an impossibility due to the demands of labour for the military, Clarke was the leading bowler for the British Empire XI which played one-day matches across the country. He took 98 wickets for 11.48 runs apiece in 1941^[1] and bettered this with 129 for 10.17 apiece in 1942.^[2]

A fine leg-spinner, he was for a time a guest of the Queen,^{[clarification needed]} after which, according to an admiring Leo Cooper, he returned “the same as ever and continued to weave his spells over a host of club cricketers”.^[3]

After the war, Clarke played frequently though not regularly for Northamptonshire in 1946 and 1947, and much later for Essex in 1959 and 1960.

References

^ Whitaker, Haddon ed. (1942) Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Seventy-Eighth Edition, p. 142
^ Whitaker, Haddon ed. (1943) Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Seventy-Ninth Edition. p. 156
^ Cooper, Leo. "Introduction". Odd Men In. p. viii.

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[1] Whitaker, Haddon ed. (1942) Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Seventy-Eighth Edition, p. 142

[2] Whitaker, Haddon ed. (1943) Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Seventy-Ninth Edition. p. 156

[3] Cooper, Leo. "Introduction". Odd Men In. p. viii.

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