Gerard Rotherham

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Personal information
Gerard Rotherham
England
Full name	Gerard Alexander Rotherham
Born	28 May 1899 (1899-05-28)
	Coventry, Warwickshire, England
Died	31 January 1985 (aged 85)
	Bakewell, Derbyshire, England
Role	All-rounder
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right arm medium
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1919-1920	Cambridge University
1919-1921	Warwickshire
1928/29	Wellington
First-class debut	May 21, 1919: Cambridge University v Australian Imperial Forces
Last First-class	January 22, 1929: Wellington v Auckland
Career statistics
	FC
Matches	65
Runs scored	1801
Batting average	18.76
100s/50s	0/7
Top score	84*

Balls bowled	9556
Wickets	180
Bowling average	28.36
5 wickets in innings	8
10 wickets in match	0
Best bowling	7/69
Catches/stumpings	48/-
As of August 23, 2007 Source: CricketArchive

Gerard Alexander Rotherham, born at Coventry on May 28, 1899 and died at Bakewell, Derbyshire on January 31, 1985, was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and Warwickshire in England and for Wellington in New Zealand.

But Rotherham's chief cricket fame was achieved as a schoolboy at Rugby School, where his record as a fast-medium bowler led to him being named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in the 1918 edition of Wisden, at a time when first-class cricket was suspended for the First World War.

Rotherham's later first-class career lasted only a few seasons. He got a Blue at Cambridge in both 1919 and 1920, when his swashbuckling lower-order batting was almost as valuable as his increasingly wayward bowling. In 1921, he had a full season of county cricket with Warwickshire, and this time the bowling was more valuable than the batting, and he took 88 wickets in the season. But at the end of the season he moved to New Zealand, where he made just a few appearances for Wellington in 1928-29.