Charlie Hallows

Charles Hallows (4 April 1895 – 10 November 1972) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Lancashire and England.

Charlie Hallows

Hallows in 1921
Personal information
Born	(1895-04-04)4 April 1895 Little Lever, Lancashire, England
Died	10 November 1972(1972-11-10) (aged 77) Bolton, Lancashire, England
Batting	Left-handed
Bowling	Slow left-arm orthodox
International information
National side	England
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1914 to 1932	Lancashire
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class Matches 2 383 Runs scored 42 20926 Batting average 42.00 40.24 100s/50s 0/0 55/94 Top score 26 233* Balls bowled – 1583 Wickets – 19 Bowling average – 39.47 5 wickets in innings – 0 10 wickets in match – 0 Best bowling – 3/28 Catches/stumpings 0/– 142/–
Source: Cricinfo

A tall left-handed opening batsman, Hallows provided the attacking flair in the successful Lancashire side in the 1920s. In the County Championship-winning years of 1927 and 1928, he was among the top half-dozen batsmen in England and his career average was more than 40 runs per innings. Yet he played only twice for England, once in 1921 and then again once in the inaugural Tests against the West Indies in 1928, scoring 42 runs in all and being dismissed only once. He was also a fine fieldsman with a superb throw.[1]

In 1928, Hallows scored more than 1,000 runs in the month of May, a feat previously achieved only by W. G. Grace and Wally Hammond and never since.[2] He needed 232 runs to complete 1,000 in his last innings in May. He made that score and was out the next ball. But within four years, he had drifted out of the Lancashire team at the age of 37, taking up a series of professional appointments with league cricket clubs in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.[1]

He coached at Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, Crosby, Belvedere College, Dublin, and Kimberley High School in South Africa, before being appointed coach at Worcestershire in 1957.[3] He later took up the same role at Lancashire, retiring at the age of 74 in 1969. David Lloyd says that he was headhunted by the county.[4]

He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1928.