Dickie Brooks

Dickie Brooks

Personal information
Full name	Richard Alan Brooks
Born	(1943-06-14) 14 June 1943 (age 81) Edgware, Middlesex, England
Batting	Right-handed
Role	Wicketkeeper
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1967	Oxford University
1968	Somerset
First-class debut	13 May 1967 Oxford University v Indians
Last First-class	2 September 1968 Somerset v Gloucestershire
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 35 Runs scored 317 Batting average 10.93 100s/50s 0/0 Top score 44 Catches/stumpings 53/7
Source: CricketArchive, 15 September 2013

Richard Alan Brooks (born 14 June 1943), known as Dickie Brooks is an English former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Somerset.

Brooks was educated at Quintin School in St John's Wood and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[1][2] A lower-order right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper, he won a Blue for cricket in 1967, and was then offered a contract with Somerset, the county having just parted company with its regular wicketkeeper Geoff Clayton. Brooks kept wicket tidily for Somerset for the whole of the 1968 season, but at the end of it he was offered a teaching post at Bradfield College and gave up the first-class game.[3]

References

1. Wisden 1968, p. 351.
2. Dickie Brooks at CricketArchive (subscription required)
3. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1968 and 1969 editions.