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unusual facts about Jim Parks, Sr.



Combined Services cricket team

For example, in the 1951 match against the touring South Africans the side included Brian Close, who had already played for England, and Jim Parks, Fred Titmus and Alan Moss, who would all go on to do so.

Duncan Sharpe

His highest score for South Australia was 72 in the first match of the 1965-66 season against Victoria, but his next match was also his last; like his first, it was against the touring MCC - for whom Ken Barrington and Jim Parks had played in both matches.

Jim Ditchburn

His first innings figures of 4 for 46 consisted entirely of present and future England Test cricketers, James Langridge, Joe Hardstaff, Jim Parks and Wilf Barber.


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