Bertie Clarke
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Born |
7 April 1918 Lakes Folly, Barbados |
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Died | 14 October 1993 (aged 75) Putney, London, England |
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Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Leg break, googly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut (cap 46) | 24 June 1939 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 19 August 1939 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1937/38–1938/39 | Barbados | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1946–1949 | Northamptonshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1959–1960 | Essex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 1 March 2016
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Carlos Bertram Clarke (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 and bettered this with 129 for 10.17 apiece in 1942.
A fine leg-spinner, he was for a time a guest of the Queen, 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”.
After the war, Clarke played frequently though not regularly for Northamptonshire in 1946 and 1947, and much later for Essex in 1959 and 1960.