John Bowes (cricketer)

John Bowes

Personal information
Full name	John Barton Bowes
Born	2 January 1918 Stretford, Lancashire, England
Died	22 May 1969 (aged 51) Manchester, England
Batting style	Not known
Bowling style	Right-arm medium-pace
Role	Bowler
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1938–1948	Lancashire
First-class debut	6 July 1938 Lancashire v Northamptonshire
Last First-class	14 May 1948 Lancashire v Warwickshire
Career statistics
Competition FC Matches 10 Runs scored 106 Batting average 8.83 100s/50s –/– Top score 39 Balls bowled 1463 Wickets 20 Bowling average 30.10 5 wickets in innings – 10 wickets in match – Best bowling 4-103 Catches/stumpings 7/–
Source: CricketArchive, 21 May 2012

John Barton Bowes (2 January 1918 – 22 May 1969) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire in 10 matches between 1938 and 1948.^[1] He was born in Stretford, Manchester and died in Manchester too.

Bowes was a tail-end batsman and a right-arm medium-paced seam bowler. His single first-class game before the Second World War came in 1938 against Northamptonshire, and Wisden Cricketers' Almanack noted that he "used his exceptional height for making the ball lift and when seven Lancashire batsmen were out for 49 he hit so well that 67 runs were added".^[2] In the match he took only one wicket but the 39 he made in his only innings of the game would prove to be his highest first-class score.^[3]

Bowes returned to Lancashire after the war and played regularly in 1947: most of his games were for the second eleven in the Minor Counties Championship, but in August he had a run of seven matches in the first team. His best bowling came in the game against the South Africans, when he took four wickets for 103 runs in 41 overs, all of them top-order batsmen.^[4] After a single match in 1948 he did not play for Lancashire again.

Bowes qualified as an umpire and stood in Minor Counties matches from 1955 and then in first-class domestic matches in England in 1958 and 1959.

References

1. "John Bowes". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
2. "Northamptonshire in 1938". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1939 ed.). Wisden. p. 459.
3. "Scorecard: Northamptonshire v Lancashire". www.cricketarchive.com. 1938-07-06. Retrieved 2012-05-15.
4. "Scorecard: Lancashire v South Africans". www.cricketarchive.com. 1947-08-09. Retrieved 2012-05-15.