Brian Roe

For the Australian tennis player, see Bryan Roe.

Brian Roe
Personal information
Born(1939-01-27)27 January 1939
Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England
Died28 June 2014(2014-06-28) (aged 75)
Barnstaple, Devon, England
BattingRight-handed
RoleOpening batsman
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1957–1966Somerset
FC debut24 July 1957 Somerset v Kent
Last FC20 May 1966 Somerset v Leicestershire
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 136 6
Runs scored 5,010 73
Batting average 22.26 12.16
100s/50s 4/25 0/0
Top score 128 30
Balls bowled 120 –
Wickets 2 –
Bowling average 52.00 –
5 wickets in innings 0 –
10 wickets in match 0 –
Best bowling 1/43 –
Catches/stumpings 44/– 0/–
Source: CricketArchive, 13 September 2009

Brian Roe (27 January 1939 – 27 June 2014) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Somerset between 1957 and 1966.[1]

Roe was born at Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. A diminutive and defensive right-handed batsman, he played mostly as an opener, and was a regular member of the Somerset side between 1961 and 1964. He scored 1,000 runs in three seasons from 1961 to 1963, reaching 1552 runs at an average of 26.30 in 1962.[2] He made four first-class centuries, with the highest being 128 in the match against Essex at Brentwood in 1962.[3] He was awarded his county cap in 1962.[4]

In 1964, despite an unbeaten century against Lancashire at Bath, Roe was out of form and he was dropped from the side in July.[5] He played a few matches in both 1965 and 1966 without regaining his form, and with competition for batting places high at Somerset with the return of Roy Virgin as an opener after National Service and the rise of Mervyn Kitchen, he left first-class cricket at the end of the 1966 season.

Roe moved to Minor Counties cricket with Devon and made one List A appearance for a Minor Counties South representative side against Somerset in 1973 in the Benson and Hedges Cup.[6]

  1. ^ "Somerset mourning Brian Roe". www.somersetcountycc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 22 September 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  2. ^ "First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Brian Roe". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
  3. ^ "Essex v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 27 June 1962. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
  4. ^ David Foot & Ivan Ponting. Somerset Cricket: A Post-War Who's Who (1993 ed.). Redcliffe Books. p. 96. ISBN 1-872971-23-7.
  5. ^ "Somerset v Lancashire". www.cricketarchive.com. 4 July 1964. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
  6. ^ "Somerset v Minor Counties South". www.cricketarchive.com. 5 May 1973. Retrieved 13 September 2009.