Frederick Bowley (cricketer, born 1873)

He opened the batting with Wilfrid Foster, but was bowled for 4 in each innings, though he did take a catch to dismiss opposing captain Billy Murdoch.He played rather fewer games in 1907 and 1908, and came nowhere near his thousand runs in either season, but from 1909 until first-class cricket was interrupted by the First World War he achieved the mark every year except 1912.In June 1914 he made his highest score, 276 against Hampshire at Dudley; this established a county record that survived until surpassed by Glenn Turner's 311* 68 years later.[1] Bowley was well into his forties when county cricket resumed in 1919, but he nevertheless played on for several years and scoring consistently in a weak Worcestershire side.His bowling was of the strictly occasional variety, but he did take four wickets in first-class cricket, his first and last victims (Albert Relf in 1900 and Jack Board in 1904) being Test players.
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