John Palmer Parker was an English

English people

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 cricket

Cricket

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er. Parker was a right-handed batsman.

Parker made his first-class

First-class cricket

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 debut for Hampshire

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 in the 1926 County Championship

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 against Northamptonshire

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. Parker played 44 first-class matches for Hampshire between 1926 and 1933, with his final match for the county coming against Somerset

Somerset County Cricket Club

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. In his 44 matches for the county he scored 1,117 runs at a batting average

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 of 17.45, with four half centuries and a single century score of 156 against Kent

Kent County Cricket Club

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 in 1926. With the ball Parker took 6 wickets at a bowling average

Bowling average

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 of 43.00, with best figures of 2-14. In the field Parker took a total of 21 catches for the county.

As well as playing first-class cricket for Hampshire, he also represented LH Tennyson's XI

Lionel Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson

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 in two first-class matches against Jamaica

Jamaica national cricket team

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 on their tour of the West Indies in 1927. Parker also played for the Gentlemen in a single Gentlemen v Players

Gentlemen v Players

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 fixture in 1927.

Parker died at Warblington

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, Hampshire

Hampshire

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 on August 9, 1984.

External links

• John Parker at Cricinfo
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• John Parker at CricketArchive
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