{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Distinguish|Christopher Howland (politician)}} {{distinguish|text=Chris Howland, British radio and TV presenter largely in (West) Germany}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Christopher Howland | image = | fullname = Christopher Burfield Howland | birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|2|6|df=yes}} | birth_place = Whitstable, Kent | death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|5|14|1936|2|6|df=yes}} | death_place = Farnborough, London | heightft = | heightinch = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | role = Wicket-keeper | club1 = Cambridge University | year1 = {{nowrap|1958–1960}} | club2 = Sussex | year2 = 1960 | club3 = Kent | year3 = 1965 | type1 = FC | debutdate1 = 19 May | debutyear1 = 1956 | debutfor1 = Combined Services | debutagainst1 = Glamorgan | lastdate1 = 7 September | lastyear1 = 1968 | lastfor1 = MCC | lastagainst1 = Ireland | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 64 | runs1 = 1,629 | bat avg1 = 16.96 | 100s/50s1 = 1/5 | top score1 = 124 | deliveries1 = 12 | wickets1 = 0 | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1 = 130/21 | date = 7 November 2017 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/15005.html CricInfo }}
'''Christopher Burfield Howland''' (6 February 1936 – 14 May 2010) was an English amateur cricketer who mainly played for Cambridge University Cricket Club. He was a wicket-keeper who played for a number of amateur teams and worked in the City of London.
==Early life== Howland was born in Whitstable in Kent in 1936 and educated at Dulwich College and Clare College, Cambridge.<ref>''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' 1959, p. 291.</ref><ref name=ci>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/15005.html Chris Howland], CricInfo. Retrieved 12 November 2017.</ref> He played cricket for his school, for Beckenham Cricket Club and, in 1955, for the Kent Second XI before serving in the British Army on National Service. He made his first-class cricket debut for the Combined Services team whilst in the Army, playing against Glamorgan in May 1956 and played in two other non-first-class matches for the Army team.<ref name=ca>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30430/30430.html Christopher Howland], CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 November 2017. {{subscription required}}</ref>
==University and cricket== After going up to Cambridge University in 1957, Howland played for the University cricket team for three years, making a total of 48 first-class appearances for the team,<ref name=ca /> having found himself in the Cambridge team following the death of the Australian Brian Swift prior to the 1958 season. He captained the team in his final year and gained his Blue in 1958, playing in all three University Matches against Oxford whilst he was a student.<ref name=wisden11>Howland, Christopher Burfield, Obituaries in 2010, ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', 2011. ([https://books.google.com/books?id=w-dvppTiQQUC&dq=Christopher%20Burfield%20Howland&pg=PT246 Available online]. Retrieved 10 November 2017.)</ref> He toured South America with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1958/59 and Canada with the club in 1959<ref name=ca /><ref name=ci59>Silk D (1960) [http://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketer/content/story/139427.html MCC in Canada 1959], in ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', 1960. Retrieved 12 November 2017.</ref> and played for the Gentlemen against the Players in 1959.<ref name=wisden11 />
In 1960 he played in four first-class matches for Sussex County Cricket Club after graduating, but his career in the City meant that he was unable to commit to playing cricket at first-class level, although he remained a keen club player and appeared in six first-class matches for MCC between 1961 and 1968 and two for Free Foresters in 1961.<ref name=ca /><ref name=wisden11 /> He played twice for Kent County Cricket Club in 1965 and made his last first-class appearance against Ireland in Dublin in 1968.<ref name=ca />
==Later life== Howland was the Chairman of the Lord's Taverners in 1978–79 and served on a number of committees at Lord's.<ref name=wisden11 /> His brother, Peter Howland, also played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1969.<ref name=wisden11 />
In 1983 Howland joined the fledgling cable television sports channel Screensport as marketing director.<ref>Sport cable group gets two major U.S. investors, ''The Stage'', 30 December 1983, p.12.</ref> He died in Farnborough in 2010 aged 74.<ref name=ci />
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==External links== * {{cricinfo|id=15005}}
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