He was a regular member of the Sussex county team from 1927 and scored 1,000 runs in every season except one up to 1939, when his first-class career ended with the Second World War in 1935, he did the all - rounder's "double" of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets, but nothing in Parks' career suggested he was an out-of-the-ordinary county cricketer — until 1937.
In that year, by scoring 3,003 runs and taking 101 wickets in the season,[1] he set a record that is all but certainly never to be equalled.
Having been termed "solid" earlier in his career, Parks revealed in 1937 a full range of previously unsuspected strokes and was praised by Wisden for his "enterprise".
He was called up for the 1937 Test match against New Zealand at Lord's alongside another debutant, Leonard Hutton.
After the Second World War II, Parks played Lancashire League cricket and was coach at Sussex for a period in the 1960s.