Player profile

Full name Charles F E Latham
Born Surrey, September 18, 1941
Died Kingston, April 19, 2000
Nickname
Batting style Left-hand tailender
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Height 5 ft 9 in
Clubs Wimbledon
School XI 1957 to 1960 (captain 1960)
OC Career 1959 to 1973

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat		Inns		NO		HS		Runs		Ave		50		100		Ct		St
OCCC	95		82		19		61		812		12.39		1		0		42		0

Bowling averages

	Overs		Mdns		Runs		Wkts		Ave		Best		5WI		SR		Econ
OCCC	998.2		239		2896		155		18.68		9-51		8		38.6		2.9

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Profile

Charlie Latham was a superb allround sportsman, gaining colours in the three major sports as well as representing Cranleigh at squash and athletics, but it was at cricket that he excelled, eventually playing for Surrey Young Amateurs. He was a brisk rather than fast bowler who at first sight appeared to pose few problems. But the skiddy nature of his delivery - he was a relatively short man -, the ability to move the ball off the seam from just short of a length, combined with his metronomic accuracy made him frustratingly difficult to get away and his stamina meant that he was happy to bowl over after over up the Jubilee hill. Many wickets which fell at the other end were down to Charlie's stifling bowling. In the 1960s he was the leading OC bowler, with his greatest moment coming in 1963 when he took 9 for 51 against a University XI which included ten first-class cricketers - it remains the second-best return by an OC. As a batsman he was under-rated but a more than capable late middle-order player. Charlie was never quite the same bowler after a car accident in the mid 1960s and he slowly drifted out of all forms of cricket at the end of the decade.

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