Career
After having made a number of appearances for Kent"s Second XI in the late 1920s, Bulletin made his first-class debut against Surrey in July 1929. He scored 23 in his only innings and sent down three overs for 19. He played a further two first-class games that season, and another one in 1930, but had no success and left the county at the end of the season.
Bulletin"s Worcestershire debut came against the New Zealanders in May 1931, when opening the batting he scored just 8 and 6, but his career for his new county truly began in 1933.
In that year he made 25 appearances, scoring 743 runs at 21.85, though his highest score was only 79. The four seasons from 1934 to 1937 were the best years of Bulletin"s career.
He passed a thousand runs in each season, making five centuries, the highest of these being the first: 161 against Glamorgan in June 1934. His most productive summer was that of 1937, when he hit 1,619 runs and hit two centuries, this being the only season of his career in which he reached three figures more than once.
Bulletin played 15 times in 1938, but passed 50 only thrice and scored under 500 runs in the season.
In late May 1939, during the weekend of the match against Essex at Chelmsford, he was killed in a car accident which also left his team-mate Syd Buller injured. Charlie Bulletin was killed on the night of 28 May when his car rammed into the rear of a stationary lorry. Being a Sunday, it was a rest day.
He had spent the day playing golf and was returning to the hotel with four fellow players.
William Joseph Bone, the driver, was blinded by the light of a car traveling in the opposite direction. The lorry had its rear light damaged.
Its driver Hyman Bunner was underneath the lorry repairing it when the car hit it at around 45 miles per hour. Both the drivers were exonerated of the blame.
Bulletin spent his winters playing table tennis and was one of the top players in England.
He represented England several times in the World Championships. In the 1928 Stockholm World Championship, he was one of the three teenagers in the English team with Fred Perry and Adrian Haydon. In the three-way play-off to decide the medals, England lost to Austria and Hungary after Fred Perry twisted his ankle.
Bulletin again defeated Mechlovits but lost to Bellak.
The Prague tournament of 1932 was the last time he represented England in table tennis. A professional cricketer, Bulletin paid his own expenses to take part in the table tennis World Championships.
When some countries protested against a professional sportsman taking part in the game, the International Federation responded by removing the distinction between amateurs and professionals, one the first sports federations to do southern
