A Review of the 1955 Season
Ken Dowding took over as skipper in 1955, the beginning of a nine year unbroken Captaincy which is the longest in the history of the Club, although Gordon Downes was Captain for a total of twelve years in all. His positive approach saw only 3 games drawn, with 11 wins and 9 defeats recorded. The skipper had the best innings of 88 v Woodford Wells and totalled 550 runs for the First Eleven, closely followed by Griffiths with 510, while George Chapman (459) and Bill Jeffrey (400) were the other mainstays of the bating. With the ball outstanding performances came from Les Warner whose 38 wickets included 6-29 v Buckhurst Hill, while Tonge took 29 wickets, with his best bowling being 6-27 in the defeat against Highgate. Rex Vickers picked up the season’s best analysis with 6-14 v Loughton.
Chingford narrowly failed to beat Essex Club and Ground with 202-4 in reply to 205-8. Colts membership had risen to 60 under Cliff Crafer, boding well for the future.