Cliff Gladwin

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Cliff Gladwin England (ENG)
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm fast-medium
	Tests	First-class
Matches	8	374
Runs scored	170	6283
Batting average	28.33	17.35
100s/50s	-/1	1/15
Top score	51*	124*
Balls bowled	2129	81296
Wickets	15	1653
Bowling average	38.06	18.30
5 wickets in innings	-	101
10 wickets in match	-	18
Best bowling	3/21	9/41
Catches/stumpings	2/-	135/-
Test debut: 5 July 1947 Last Test: 25 June 1949 Source: [1]

Clifford Gladwin, born Doe Lea, Derbyshire, April 3, 1916 and died at Chesterfield on April 10, 1988, was a cricketer who played for Derbyshire and England.

A tall right-arm medium-fast seam bowler of great accuracy and consistency, Cliff Gladwin formed, with Les Jackson, the most feared new ball attack in the English first-class game for a dozen years after the Second World War. Gladwin was both penetrative and mean, with around a third of his overs being maidens, and in 13 full seasons he took 100 or more wickets 12 times, usually at an average of under 20 runs per wicket.

After a handful of games in 1939, he returned to the county in 1946 and was an instant success. Within a year, he was in the Test match team to face South Africa at Old Trafford, where he conceded only 58 runs in a marathon stint of 50 overs. Failure to take enough wickets at Test level, however, restricted his appearances to just eight over the next two years, five of them on the tour to South Africa in 1948-49 under George Mann. There he became a national hero by scoring the leg bye that won the Durban Test for England off the last possible ball of the match.

After 1949, Gladwin was restricted to county cricket, sometimes captaining Derbyshire in the absence of Donald Carr. He was also a useful lower order batsman. His career total of 1,653 wickets puts him 60th on the all-time list of wicket-takers.