Harry Parks (cricketer)

{{short description|English cricketer}}

{{for|the American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient|Henry Jeremiah Parks}}

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{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Harry Parks

| image =

| caption =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|7|18|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Haywards Heath, Sussex

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1984|5|17|1906|7|18|df=yes}}

| death_place = Taunton, Somerset

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm medium

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 483

| runs1 = 21,725

| bat avg1 = 33.57

| 100s/50s1 = 42/106

| top score1 = 200*

| deliveries1 = 1,208

| wickets1 = 13

| bowl avg1 = 54.23

| fivefor1 = 0

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 2/37

| catches/stumpings1= 196/–

| source = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/31/31888/31888.html CricketArchive

| date = 24 October

| year = 2021

}}

Henry William Parks (18 July 1906 – 7 May 1984) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman whose first-class career with Sussex lasted from 1926 to 1948. In 483 matches he scored 21,725 runs at an average of 33.57, with 42 centuries and a highest score of 200* . He scored 1000 runs in a season 14 times, with a best of 2,122 in 1947. Before World War Two he was a middle-order batsman, but after it he became John Langridge's opening partner.

He was a member of a notable cricketing family, being the brother of Jim Parks senior and the uncle of Jim Parks junior. He stood as a first-class umpire in 1949 and 1950, and played one match for the Commonwealth XI in India in 1949–50, his last first-class match. Afterwards he was a coach at Taunton School.