taking five wickets for 79 runs against Hampshire in his last match, in so doing raising his aggregate to 100 wickets for the sixteenth consecutive season. This feat is bettered only by Derek Shackleton and Tich Freeman. Perks played more than 500 matches for Worcestershire. He was the only man to take two thousand wickets for the county: his final total of 2,143 Worcestershire wickets (out of 2,233 in all) easily a county record, being more than 500 victims clear of second-placed Norman Gifford. His father Thomas Perks had one first-class game for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1902. References 1911 births 1977 deaths England Test cricketers English cricketers Worcestershire cricketers Worcestershire cricket captains Combined Services cricketers Cricketers who have taken five wickets on Test debut Players cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Monmouthshire cricketers English cricketers of 1919 to 1945 North v South cricketers