Dickie Brooks Explained

Dickie Brooks
Country:England
Fullname:Richard Alan Brooks
Birth Date:14 June 1943
Birth Place:Edgware, Middlesex, England
Batting:Right-handed
Role:Wicketkeeper
Club1:Oxford University
Year1:1967
Club2:Somerset
Year2:1968
Type1:First-class
Debutdate1:13 May
Debutyear1:1967
Debutfor1:Oxford University
Debutagainst1:Indians
Lastdate1:2 September
Lastyear1:1968
Lastfor1:Somerset
Lastagainst1:Gloucestershire
Hidedeliveries:true
Columns:1
Column1:First-class
Matches1:35
Runs1:317
Bat Avg1:10.93
100S/50S1:0/0
Top Score1:44
Catches/Stumpings1:53/7
Date:15 September
Year:2013
Source:https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3456/3456.html CricketArchive

Richard Alan Brooks (born 14 June 1943) at Edgware, Middlesex, known as Dickie Brooks is an English former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Somerset.

Brooks was educated at Quintin School in St John's Wood and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[1] A lower-order right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper, he 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.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Wisden 1968, p. 351.
  2. [Wisden Cricketers' Almanack]