Brian Roe

Brian Roe
Personal information
Full name Brian Roe
Born (1939-01-27)27 January 1939
Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England
Died 28 June 2014(2014-06-28) (aged 75)
Barnstaple, Devon, England
Batting style Right-handed batsman
Role Opening batsman
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1957–66 Somerset
First-class debut 24 July 1957 Somerset v Kent
Last First-class 20 May 1966 Somerset v Leicestershire
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 136 6
Runs scored 5010 73
Batting average 22.26 12.16
100s/50s 4/25 –/–
Top score 128 30
Balls bowled 120
Wickets 2
Bowling average 52.00
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match
Best bowling 1/43
Catches/stumpings 44/– –/–
Source: CricketArchive, 13 September 2009

Brian Roe (27 January 1939 27 June 2014) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Somerset between 1957 and 1966.[1]

Roe was born at Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. A diminutive and defensive right-handed batsman, he played mostly as an opener, and was a regular member of the Somerset side between 1961 and 1964. He scored 1,000 runs in three seasons from 1961 to 1963, reaching 1552 runs at an average of 26.30 in 1962.[2] He made four first-class centuries, with the highest being 128 in the match against Essex at Brentwood in 1962.[3] He was awarded his county cap in 1962.[4]

In 1964, despite an unbeaten century against Lancashire at Bath, Roe was out of form and he was dropped from the side in July.[5] He played a few matches in both 1965 and 1966 without regaining his form, and with competition for batting places high at Somerset with the return of Roy Virgin as an opener after National Service and the rise of Mervyn Kitchen, he left first-class cricket at the end of the 1966 season.

Roe moved to Minor Counties cricket with Devon and made one List A appearance for a Minor Counties South representative side against Somerset in 1973 in the Benson and Hedges Cup.[6]

References

  1. "Somerset mourning Brian Roe". www.somersetcountycc.co.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  2. "First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Brian Roe". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
  3. "Essex v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 1962-06-27. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
  4. David Foot and Ivan Ponting. Somerset Cricket: A Post-War Who's Who (1993 ed.). Redcliffe Books. p. 96. ISBN 1-872971-23-7.
  5. "Somerset v Lancashire". www.cricketarchive.com. 1964-07-04. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
  6. "Somerset v Minor Counties South". www.cricketarchive.com. 1973-05-05. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
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