Claude Buckenham

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Claude Buckenham England (ENG)

Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm fast
	Tests	First-class
Matches	4	307
Runs scored	43	5641
Batting average	6.14	14.50
100s/50s	-/-	2/12
Top score	17	124
Balls bowled	1182	-
Wickets	21	1150
Bowling average	28.23	25.31
5 wickets in innings	1	85
10 wickets in match	-	17
Best bowling	5/115	8/33
Catches/stumpings	2/-	172/-
Test debut: 1 January 1910 Last Test: 7 March 1910 Source: [1]

Competitor for United Kingdom
Olympic medal record
Men's football
Gold	1900 Paris	Team Competition

Claude Percival Buckenham, (born January 16, 1876, at Herne Hill, London, and died February 23, 1937, at Dundee, Scotland), was a cricketer who played for Essex and England.

Tall and gangling, and with a toothcomb moustache, Buckenham was a fast bowler and a useful lower order batsman. He played for Essex from 1899 to 1914, but suffered, particularly in his early years, from slipshod fielding which meant he was more expensive than he perhaps deserved. His career average, at more than 25, is high for the era in which he played.

From 1906, the first season in which he took more than 100 wickets, he came right to the front rank of English fast bowlers, and he played several representative matches over the next few English seasons without breaking into the Test match team. His only Test experience came on the 1909-10 tour to South Africa, under the captaincy of HDG Leveson-Gower. In four Tests, he took 21 wickets at 28 runs apiece, including five for 115 in the first South African innings of the third Test at Johannesburg. But though he had his most productive season in 1911, with 134 first-class wickets, he was considered too old for the 1911-12 tour to Australia.

Buckenham was a good amateur footballer and played county soccer for Essex. He played right-back for the Upton Park F.C. team that won the inaugural Olympic Football tournament in 1900.

Buckenham retired in 1914 to become professional at the Scottish club Forfarshire and after serving with Royal Garrison Artillery in the First World War he became cricket coach at Repton School.