Jim Parks junior

Cricket Player

1931 –

16

Who is Jim Parks junior?

Jim Parks is an English former cricketer. He played in forty six Tests for England, between 1954 and 1968. In those Test, Parks scored 1,962 runs with a personal best of 108 not out, and took 103 catches and made 11 stumpings.

The cricket writer, Colin Bateman, commented "Parks was a gifted batsman and a most effective wicketkeeper". Bateman added "although he never suggested he was in the same class as Godfrey Evans before him or Alan Knott after, Parks had safe hands and was a good stopper".

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Born
Oct 21, 1931
Haywards Heath
Nationality
  • England
Lived in
  • Haywards Heath

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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