Charles Harris (cricketer)

Along with Walter Keeton Harris formed one of the best opening partnerships in county cricket at the time, but the presence of players like Herbert Sutcliffe, Len Hutton and Cyril Washbrook meant he had no chance of representative honours ever coming his way.

Although he played no big innings, Harris batted so consistently that, aided by nine not outs, he averaged 50.20 in a very wet summer.

Moreover, with the county's bowling in the absence of their star pacemen as deplorably weak as it was to become near the end of his career, Harris did some valuable work as a slow to medium bowler, taking an impressive eight for 80 against Lancashire.

By this time it was said that Harris could play in a style somewhat similar to his predecessor George Gunn, whereby he would defend as a stonewaller for lengthy periods and then hit boundaries in rapid succession.

[5] In 1950, he seemed to have recovered his health and scored a career-best 239 not out against Hampshire, in the process batting a full day and hitting thirty-one fours.