Bomber Wells
- Jasprit Bumrah
- Ravindra Jadeja
- Yashasvi Jaiswal
- Virat Kohli
- Kuldeep Yadav
- Mohammed Siraj
- KL Rahul
- Rohit Sharma
- Shubman Gill
- Suryakumar Yadav
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Full Name
Bryan Douglas Wells
Born
July 27, 1930, Gloucester
Died
June 19, 2008 (aged 77y 328d)
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Bomber Wells was one of the old school who regarded cricket as something to enjoy rather than a job. A man of wide girth and rolling gait, he had - in the words of Michael Parkinson - "a summer's day in his face and laughter in his soul". The son of a blacklisted trade unionist in Gloucester, he never changed from the happy-go-lucky club cricketer he had been when first summoned to play for the county. His batting was agricultural, his fielding leisurely and he bowled brisk offspin off a one-pace run that caught many batsmen unaware. The tales of him are legion: from his exchanges with his amateur captain to the mix-ups running between the wickets. "For God's sake, call," Sam Cook once begged him and back came the reply: "Heads."
"As a batsman he really had only one shot, a great agricultural mow over mid-wicket, but it was spectacular when it connected," wrote Stephen Chalke on the Gloucestershire website. "As a fielder he was even less like a modern cricketer. A leisurely figure on the boundary, he liked to chat to the nearby spectators, on one occasion contriving to hold a catch while juggling a cup of tea in his other hand."
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Bomber Wells Career Stats
Batting & Fielding
Format | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | 100s | 50s | Ct | St |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FC | 302 | 423 | 100 | 2413 | 55 | 7.47 | 0 | 1 | 112 | 0 |
List A | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2.50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bowling
Format | Mat | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10w |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FC | 302 | 67464 | 24219 | 998 | 8/31 | - | 24.26 | 2.15 | 67.5 | - | 46 | 7 |
List A | 3 | 234 | 101 | 2 | 1/31 | 1/31 | 50.50 | 2.58 | 117.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Recent Matches of Bomber Wells
Match | Bat | Bowl | Date | Ground | Format |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Notts vs Wiltshire | -- | 0/23 | 01-May-1965 | Nottingham | List A |
Notts vs Somerset | 5 | 1/47 | 27-May-1964 | Taunton | List A |
Notts vs Australians | 0 | 2/94 | 13-May-1964 | Nottingham | FC |
Notts vs West Indians | 7 & 1* | 5/89 & 0/34 | 17-Aug-1963 | Nottingham | FC |
Notts vs Yorkshire | 0 | 1/31 | 22-May-1963 | Middlesbrough | List A |