Charles Bowmar Harris Nottinghamshire
Batting style	Right-hand bat (RHB)
Bowling type Types of bowlers in cricket In the sport of cricket there are two broad categories of bowlers: pace bowlers and spin bowlers. Pace bowlers rely mostly on the speed of the ball to dismiss batsmen, whereas spin bowlers rely on the rotation of the ball.-Pace bowlers:...	Right-arm medium
First-class record First-class cricket First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
Matches	362
Runs scored	18823
Batting average Batting average Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball that measures the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters. The two statistics are related in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.- Cricket :...	35.05
100s/50s	30/106
Top score	239 not out
Balls bowled	19918
Wickets	196
Bowling average Bowling average Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket.A bowler's bowling average is defined as the total number of runs conceded by the bowlers divided by the number of wickets taken by the bowler, so the lower the average the better. It is similar to earned...	42.82
5 wicket Wicket In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:-Definitions of wicket:Most of the time, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch... s in innings Innings An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably cricket and baseball during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring. In cricket, the term innings is both singular and plural and is...	3
10 wicket Wicket In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:-Definitions of wicket:Most of the time, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch... s in match	0
Best Bowling	8-80
Catches/Stumpings	164/0
First class debut: 14 July 1928 Last first class game: 13 July 1951 Source:

Charles Bowmar Harris (6 December 1907 – 8 August 1954) was an English

England

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 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played for Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Nottinghamshire, and the current county champions. Its limited overs team is called the Nottinghamshire Outlaws...

, chiefly as an opening batsman, in which role he was one of the mainstays of the county side in the 1930s and 1940s, when it declined as the bowling became very weak with the retirement of Larwood

Harold Larwood

Harold Larwood was an English cricket player, an extremely accurate fast bowler best known for his key role as the implementer of fast leg theory in the infamous "bodyline" Ashes Test series of 1932–33....

 and the decline of Voce

Bill Voce

Bill Voce was an English cricketer. He played for the Nottinghamshire and England, and was an instrumental part of England's infamous Bodyline tour of Australia in 1932–1933.-Life and career:...

. Along with Walter Keeton

Walter Keeton

William Walter Keeton was an English cricketer who played in two Tests in 1934 and 1939...

 Harris formed one of the best opening partnerships in county cricket at the time, but the presence of players like Herbert Sutcliffe

Herbert Sutcliffe

Herbert Sutcliffe was an English professional cricketer who represented Yorkshire and England as an opening batsman. Apart from one match in 1945, his first-class career spanned the period between the two World Wars...

, Len Hutton

Len Hutton

Sir Leonard "Len" Hutton was an English Test cricketer, who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England in the years around the Second World War as an opening batsman. He was described by Wisden Cricketer's Almanack as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket...

 and Cyril Washbrook

Cyril Washbrook

Cyril Washbrook was an English cricketer, who played for Lancashire and England. He had a long career, split by World War II, and ending when he was aged 44. Washbrook, who is most famous for opening the batting for England with Len Hutton, which he did fifty one times, played a total of 592...

 meant he had no chance of representative honours ever coming his way.

Harris first played for Nottinghamshire in 1928, but had no chance of a regular place in the side until 1931 when a motor accident deprived them of the services of Larwood, Sam Staples, and George Vernon Gunn for a month. Although he played no big innings, Harris batted consistently that, aided by nine not outs, he averaged 50.20 in a very wet summer. Moreover, with the county’s bowling in the absence of their star pacemen as deplorably weak as it was to become near the end of his career, Harris did some valuable work as a slow to medium bowler, taking an impressive eight for 80 against Lancashire. However, once the cracks returned Harris never recaptured that form and was always a last-resource bowler at best., but his batting improved so much that in his first full season of 1932 he reached one thousand runs despite never making more than 67 in any innings, and the following year he shared in the first of many big stands with Keeton, making 277 against Middlesex

Middlesex County Cricket Club

Middlesex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Middlesex. It was announced in February 2009 that Middlesex changed their limited overs name from the Middlesex Crusaders, to the...

. He also developed into a classy outfielder with a long throw.

In 1934 Harris scored a personal best 1,891 runs and the following year, despite not scoring a century, was dismissed only eight times for single figures and consequently beat George Ulyett

George Ulyett

George Ulyett was an English all-round cricketer, noted particularly for his very-aggressive batsmanship. A well-liked man , Ulyett was popularly known as "Happy Jack", once musing memorably that Yorkshire played him only for his good behaviour and his whistling...

’s long-standing 1883

1883 English cricket season

-Events:30 January. England won the deciding match of the scheduled three-Test series in Melbourne . Some ladies burned the bails and placed the resultant ashes in a small urn. This was presented to England’s captain, Ivo Bligh, who had promised to "recover those ashes"...

 record for the most runs in a season without reaching 100, scoring 1,709 with a highest score of 92. (This record has since been beaten by David Green in 1965

1965 English cricket season

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). By this time it was said that Harris could play in a style somewhat similar to his predecessor George Gunn

George Gunn

George Gunn was an English cricketer who played in 15 Tests from 1907 to 1930. Along with other notable batsmen such as Jack Hobbs, Frank Woolley and Phil Mead, he was one of a group who, beginning their first-class careers in the Edwardian Era, seemed to go on for ever...

, whereby he would defend as a stonewaller for lengthy periods and then hit boundaries in rapid succession.

Although his consistency remained remarkable up to World War II

World War II

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 - in 1937 he hit 1,877 runs without making more than 113 - in the years after the war Harris was plagued by illness and did not play a full season between 1947 and 1949, in spite of which his benefit match against Yorkshire

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

Yorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....

 netted him £

Pound sterling

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3,500 despite the loss of the first day to rain. In 1950, he seemed to have recovered his health and scored a career-best 239 not out against Hampshire

Hampshire County Cricket Club

Hampshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Hampshire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1863 as a successor to the Hampshire county cricket teams and has played at the Antelope Ground from then until 1885, before moving to the County Ground where it...

, in the process batting a full day and hitting thirty-one fours. In 1951, however, Harris declined so badly that he was left out of the team after the county’s only win - ironically against Hampshire. Despite being appointed as an umpire the following year, Harris did not stand until 1953 and after one year his health became so bad that he had to resign and died late in the summer at only forty-five.

His elder brother, George Harris

George Harris (cricketer)

George Joseph Harris was an English cricketer. Harris was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Underwood, Nottinghamshire and was the older brother of famous Nottinghamshire batsman Charles Harris.-Cricket career:Harris represented Glamorgan in a single...

, played soccer for Mansfield Town

Mansfield Town F.C.

Mansfield Town Football Club is an English football club from the former mining town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. The club was formed in 1897 as Mansfield Wesleyans and changed its name to Mansfield Wesley in 1906 before settling on Mansfield Town in 1910...

 and after being rejected by Nottinghamshire, played one first-class game with Glamorgan

Glamorgan County Cricket Club

Glamorgan County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Glamorgan aka Glamorganshire . Glamorgan CCC is the only Welsh first-class cricket club. Glamorgan CCC have won the English County...

in 1932.

External links

• Charles Harris at Cricinfo
• Charles Harris at Cricket Archive.