Paul Brooks      

Full name Paul Wilson Brooks

Born May 28, 1921, Marylebone, London

Died January 26, 1946, Paddington, London (aged 24 years 243 days)

Major teams Middlesex

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Left-arm fast-medium

Batting and fielding averages
Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
First-class 1 1 1 44 44* - 0 0 0 0
Bowling averages
Mat Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10
First-class 1 - - - - - - - - - - -
Career statistics
First-class span 1939-1939
Profile

Paul Brooks played once as an 18-year-old for Middlesex in 1939 in the last match before war, drafted in to fill in for a number of regulars who had joined up. The game was Middlesex's last first-class fixture for almost seven years. Brooks made an unbeaten 44 in his only innings, an improvement on the duck he made in his one second-team outing a year earlier. But he had already made a minor name for himself when in 1938 he bowled Don Bradman in the nets at Lord's while he was on the MCC Groundstaff, a feat that earned him an interview on British Movietone News. In the war he was in the London Fire Service and he represented them at Lord's, and he subsequently joined the Coldstream Guards and it was while serving with them in Italy in 1945 he was shot by a sniper. He was repatriated but died in Paddington Hospital in the January of 1946.
Martin Williamson

Country Fixtures Country Results
1st Semi-Final: England v South Africa at The Oval - Jun 19
England won by 7 wickets (with 75 balls remaining)
Group C: Leics v Glamorgan at Leicester - Jun 19
Glamorgan won by 34 runs
Group A: Netherlands v Notts at Truro - Jun 19
Notts won by 4 wickets (with 7 balls remaining)
Group A: Kent v Sussex at Canterbury - Jun 19
Kent won by 3 wickets (with 9 balls remaining)
Lancashire v Northants at Manchester
Jun 20-23, 2013 (11:00 local | 10:00 GMT | 06:00 EDT | 05:00 CDT | 03:00 PDT)
Worcs v Glamorgan at Worcester
Jun 20-23, 2013 (11:00 local | 10:00 GMT | 06:00 EDT | 05:00 CDT | 03:00 PDT)
Group C: Yorkshire v Middlesex at Leeds
Jun 20, 2013 (13:45 local | 12:45 GMT | 08:45 EDT | 07:45 CDT | 05:45 PDT)
Group B: Derbyshire v Scotland at Derby
Jun 20, 2013 (16:40 local | 15:40 GMT | 11:40 EDT | 10:40 CDT | 08:40 PDT)
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