Arthur Henry Seymour Clark, (born at Weston-super-Mare

Weston-super-Mare

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 on 26 March 1902 and died there on 17 March 1995), was a first-class

First-class cricket

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 cricketer who played five times for Somerset

Somerset County Cricket Club

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 in the 1930 English cricket season

1930 English cricket season

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 and set a record that appears not to have been surpassed.

Clark, a local club cricketer in Weston and a locomotive driver with the Great Western Railway

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, was called into the Somerset side for five matches when regular wicketkeeper Wally Luckes

Wally Luckes

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 was ill. He took eight catches, and Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

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 for 1931 said that he "rendered useful service in that capacity".

But it is as a batsman that Clark is chiefly remembered. In nine innings in the five games, he failed to score a single run. In the match against Northamptonshire

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 at Kettering

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, he was not out in both innings and failed to score, but otherwise he was out for 0, bowled five times and caught twice. Nine innings is believed to be the record for a first-class cricketer who failed to score a single run. John Howarth

John Howarth

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 of Nottinghamshire

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 played in 13 matches without scoring, but batted only seven times.

In Clark's obituary in Wisden 1996 edition, it is reported that the Essex

Essex County Cricket Club

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 and England

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 bowler Peter Smith

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, bowling Essex to an overwhelming victory at Colchester

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, attempted to give him a run. He bowled so gently to Clark that the ball bounced twice before reaching the batsman. Clark was still bowled by it. In club cricket, Clark reckoned his highest score was three.

He returned to his career on the railways after this brief taste of first-class cricket.