{{Short description|English cricketer (1895–1972)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Charlie Hallows | image = Charlie_Hallows.jpg | caption = Hallows in 1921 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1895|4|4|df=yes}} | birth_place = Little Lever, Lancashire, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1972|11|10|1895|4|4|df=yes}} | death_place = Bolton, Lancashire, England | batting = Left-handed | bowling = Slow left-arm orthodox | club1 = Lancashire | year1 = 1914 to 1932 | columns = 2 | column1 = Tests | matches1 = 2 | runs1 = 42 | bat avg1 = 42.00 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 26 | deliveries1 = – | wickets1 = – | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1= 0/– | column2 = First-class | matches2 = 383 | runs2 = 20926 | bat avg2 = 40.24 | 100s/50s2 = 55/94 | top score2 = 233* | deliveries2 = 1583 | wickets2 = 19 | bowl avg2 = 39.47 | fivefor2 = 0 | tenfor2 = 0 | best bowling2 = 3/28 | catches/stumpings2= 142/– | international = true | country = England | testdebutfor = | testdebutagainst = | testdebutdate = 23 July | testdebutyear = 1921 | lasttestdate = 23 June | lasttestfor = | lasttestagainst = | lasttestyear = 1928 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/14002.html Cricinfo | date = | year = }} '''Charles Hallows''' (4 April 1895 – 10 November 1972) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Lancashire and England.
A tall left-handed opening batsman, Hallows provided the attacking flair in the successful Lancashire side in the 1920s. In the County Championship-winning years of 1927 and 1928, he was among the top half-dozen batsmen in England and his career average was more than 40 runs per innings. Yet he played only twice for England, once in 1921 and then again once in the inaugural Tests against the West Indies in 1928, scoring 42 runs in all and being dismissed only once. He was also a fine fieldsman with a superb throw.<ref name=WCA/>
In 1928, Hallows scored more than 1,000 runs ''in'' the month of May, a feat previously achieved only by W. G. Grace and Wally Hammond and never since.<ref>Eight cricketers – W. G. Grace in 1895, Tom Hayward in 1900, Wally Hammond in 1927, Hallows in 1928, Don Bradman in 1930 and 1938, Bill Edrich in 1938, Glenn Turner in 1973 and Graeme Hick in 1988 – scored 1,000 before the end of May, but all except these three scored some of their runs in April.</ref> He needed 232 runs to complete 1,000 in his last innings in May. He made that score and was out the next ball. But within four years, he had drifted out of the Lancashire team at the age of 37, taking up a series of professional appointments with league cricket clubs in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.<ref name=WCA>''Wisden'' 1973, pp. 1007–9.</ref>
He coached at Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, Crosby, Belvedere College, Dublin, and Kimberley High School in South Africa, before being appointed coach at Worcestershire in 1957.<ref>"Worcestershire's new coach", ''The Cricketer'', 27 April 1957, p. 101.</ref> He later took up the same role at Lancashire, retiring at the age of 74 in 1969. David Lloyd says that he was headhunted by the county.<ref>Sky Sports Cricket The Cricket Lockdown Vodcast broadcast 11 June 2020</ref>
He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1928.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Cricinfo|id=14002}} * {{CricketArchive|id=406|archive=20230203105407}}
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