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Born: 18 September 1892, Newstead Colliery, Nottinghamshire
Died: 4 June 1950, Nottingham
Role: Right-hand batsman, right-arm off-spin bowler
First-class playing career: 1920–1934
Test record: Matches 3, Innings 5, Not outs 0, Runs 65, Average 13.00, Highest score 39; Wickets 15, Average 29.00, Best bowling 3-50
First-class record: Matches 385, Innings 475, Not outs 95, Runs 6, 470, Average 17.02, Highest score 110, 100s 1, 50s 19; Wickets 1, 331, Average 22.85, Best bowling 9-141, 5wi 72, 10wm 11; Catches 335
What happened next: Like his younger brother, Staples retired due to sciatica and, in 1934, he became assistant coach at Nottinghamshire to Jimmy Iremonger. Staples had four years in the role before succeeding Jack Carlin as the club’s scorer. Staples, the fourth-highest wicket-taker in Nottinghamshire’s history behind “Topsy” Wass, Voce and William Attewell, left Trent Bridge in 1939 to take up a coaching position at Hampshire. He became a first-class umpire in 1949 but was forced to retire after one season due to ill health and died shortly afterwards.
The Umpires
Bill Reeves
Full name: William Reeves
Born: 22 June 1875, Cambridge
Died: 22 March 1944, Hammersmith, London
First-class umpiring career: 1920–1939
Tests umpired: 5
First-class matches umpired: 380
What happened next: Having officiated three Tests in the mid-1920s, Reeves stood in two more in 1937 and 1939. The last of those, against West Indies at The Oval, was England’s final Test match before the war. Reeves had been due to preside over the Fourth Test of the 1938 Ashes at Old Trafford but the game was abandoned without a ball being bowled. He stood in first-class cricket for two decades and was a popular figure with players and crowds, while he had been coaching schoolboys at Lord’s just prior to his death, aged 68.
Harry Baldwin
Full name: Herbert George Baldwin
Born: 16 March 1893, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire
Died: 7 March 1969, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire
First-class umpiring career: 1930–1962
Tests umpired: 9
First-class matches umpired: 639
What happened next: Baldwin stood in nine Tests, the most famous of which was the last one of the 1948 Ashes series at The Oval, when Eric Hollies bowled Don Bradman for a second-ball duck. In 1938, Baldwin caused a stir by no-balling Australian pace man Ernie McCormick 19 times in three overs in the opening tour match at Worcester. McCormick apologised to Baldwin for causing him so much trouble. Baldwin enjoyed a prolific umpiring career that spanned over three decades, while his father, Harry, a former Hampshire player, was also a first-class umpire.
Ten Wickets in an Innings in First-Class Cricket
10-10 Hedley Verity, Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, Leeds, 1932
10-18 George Geary, Leicestershire v Glamorgan, Pontypridd, 1929
10-20 Premangsu Chatterjee, Bengal v Assam, Jorhat, 1957
10-26 Bert Vogler, Eastern Province v Griqualand West, Johannesburg, 1906
*10-28 Albert Moss, Canterbury v Wellington, Christchurch, 1889
10-28 Bill Howell, Australians v Surrey, The Oval, 1899
10-28 Naeem Akhtar, Rawalpindi B v Peshawar, Peshawar, 1995
10-30 Colin Blythe, Kent v Northamptonshire, Northampton, 1907
10-32 Harry Pickett, Essex v Leicestershire, Leyton, 1895
10-35 Alonzo Drake, Yorkshire v Somerset, Weston-super-Mare, 1914
10-36 Hedley Verity, Yorkshire v Warwickshire, Leeds, 1931
10-36 Tim Wall, South Australia v New South Wales, Sydney, 1933
10-37 Alex Kennedy, Players v Gentlemen, The Oval, 1927
10-37 Clarrie Grimmett, Australians v Yorkshire, Sheffield, 1930
10-38 Samuel Butler, Oxford University v Cambridge University, Lord’s, 1871
10-40 Edward Dennett, Gloucestershire v Essex, Bristol, 1906
10-40 Billy Bestwick, Derbyshire v Glamorgan, Cardiff, 1921
10-40 Gubby Allen, Middlesex v Lancashire, Lord’s, 1929
10-41 Jack Bannister, Warwickshire v Combined Services, Birmingham, 1959
10-41 Pramodya Wickramasinghe, Sinhalese Sports Club v Kalutara Physical Culture Centre, Colombo, 1991
10-42 Albert Trott, Middlesex v Somerset, Taunton, 1900
10-43 Edward Barratt, Players v Australians, The Oval, 1878
10-43 Tom Rushby, Surrey v Somerset, Taunton, 1921
10-44 Ian Brayshaw, Western Australia v Victoria, Perth, 1967
10-45 Tom Richardson, Surrey v Essex, The Oval, 1894
10-45 Richard Johnson, Middlesex v Derbyshire, Derby, 1994
10-46 William Hickton, Lancashire v Hampshire, Manchester, 1870
10-46 Debasis Mohanty, East Zone v South Zone, Agartala, 2001
10-47 Frank Smailes, Yorkshire v Derbyshire, Sheffield, 1939
10-47 Ottis Gibson, Durham v Hampshire, Chester-le-Street, 2007
10-48 Cyril Bland, Sussex v Kent, Tonbridge, 1899
10-49 W. G. Grace, MCC v Oxford University, The Parks, 1886
10-49 Ted Tyler, Somerset v Surrey, Taunton, 1895
10-49 Eric Hollies, Warwickshire v Nottinghamshire, Birmingham, 1946
10-49 Ian Thomson, Sussex v Warwickshire, Worthing, 1964
10-51 Harry Howell, Warwickshire v Yorkshire, Birmingham, 1923
10-51 Jack Mercer, Glamorgan v Worcestershire, Worcester, 1936
10-53 Bart King, Gentlemen of Philadelphia v Gentlemen of Ireland, Haverford, Pennsylvania, 1909
10-53 “Tich” Freeman, Kent v Essex, Southend, 1930
10-53 Jim Laker, England v Australia, Manchester, 1956
10-54 George Wootton, All England Eleven v Yorkshire, Sheffield, 1865
10-54 Tony Lock, Surrey v Kent, Blackheath, 1956
10-55 Johnny Briggs, Lancashire v Worcestershire, Manchester, 1900
10-58 Shahid Mahmood, Karachi Whites v Khairpur, Karachi, 1969
10-59 George Burton, Middlesex v Surrey, The Oval, 1888
10-59 Stephen Jeffries, Western Province v Orange Free State, Cape Town, 1987
10-61 Peter Allan, Queensland v Victoria, Melbourne, 1966
10-64 Tommy Mitchell, Derbyshire v Leicestershire, Leicester, 1935
10-65 George Collins, Kent v Nottinghamshire, Dover, 1922
10-65 Mario Oliver, Warriors v Eagles, Bloemfontein, 2007
10-66 George Giffen, Australian XI v Combined XI, Sydney, 1884
10-66 Arthur Mailey, Australians v Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, 1921
10-66 Ken Graveney, Gloucestershire v Derbyshire, Chesterfield, 1949
10-66 Ken Smales, Nottinghamshire v Gloucestershire, Stroud, 1956
10-67 Eddie Watts, Surrey v Warwickshire, Birmingham, 1939
10-69 Sammy Woods, Cambridge University v C. I. Thornton’s XI, Cambridge, 1890
10-73 Alfred Shaw, MCC v North, Lord’s, 1874
10-74 Vyell Walker, England v Surrey, The Oval, 1859
10-74 Anil Kumble, India v Pakistan, Delhi, 1999
10-76 Jack White, Somerset v Worcestershire, Worcester, 1921
10-78 Fergie Gupte, Bombay v Pakistan Combined Services and Bahawalpur XI, Bombay, 1954
10-78 Tony Pearson, Cambridge University v Leicestershire, Loughborough, 1961
10-78 Pradeep Sunderam, Rajasthan v Vidarbha, Jodhpur, 1985
10-79 Charlie Parker, Gloucestershire v Somerset, Bristol, 1921
10-79 “Tich” Freeman, Kent v Lancashire, Manchester, 1931
10-88 Jim Laker, Surrey v Australians, The Oval, 1956
10-90 Arthur Fielder, Players v Gentlemen, Lord’s, 1906
10-90 Jim Sims, East v West, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1948
10-90 Trevor Bailey, Essex v Lancashire, Clacton-on-Sea, 1949
10-92 Imran Adil, Bahawalpur v Faisalabad, Faisalabad, 1989
10-102 Bob Berry, Lancashire v Worcestershire, Blackpool, 1953
10-104 Vyell Walke
r, Middlesex v Lancashire, Manchester, 1865
10-113 Tom Goddard, Gloucestershire v Worcestershire, Cheltenham, 1937
10-127 Vallance Jupp, Northamptonshire v Kent, Tunbridge Wells, 1932
10-129 James Lillywhite junior, South v North, Canterbury, 1872
10-131 “Tich” Freeman, Kent v Lancashire, Maidstone, 1929
10-143 Zulfiqar Babar, Multan v Islamabad, Multan, 2009
10-175 Eddie Hemmings, International XI v West Indies XI, Kingston, 1982
**10-? Edmund Hinkly, Kent v England, Lord’s, 1848
**10-? John Wisden, North v South, Lord’s, 1850
In addition, the following instances were achieved in 12-a-side games:
10-36 Fitz Hinds, A. B. St Hill’s XII v Trinidad, Port-of-Spain, 1901
10-69 E. M. Grace, Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club v Gentlemen of Kent, Canterbury, 1862
10-92 W. G. Grace, Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club v Kent, Canterbury, 1873
* On first-class debut
** There is no record of the runs conceded by Edmund Hinkly and John Wisden
(Statistics correct at time of writing).
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Acknowledgements
My thanks to the late Frank Shipston, who unknowingly inspired this book, and the late Douglas Verity, who encouraged me to write it. I was privileged to count Douglas as a friend in the short time I knew him and will treasure his memory always. Thanks also to his widow, Ann, one of the nicest people I have met, and to Frank Shipston’s son, Peter, for kindly answering follow-up enquiries. I am also grateful to the late John Robert Richardson and his ever-helpful daughter Rosemary Norkett, as well as her equally helpful husband, Stan.
A special thank you to Sidney Fielden, who supplied me with various research items including a typed-up copy of Hedley Verity senior’s memoir. Sidney was Douglas Verity’s best friend and he admired Hedley Verity to the extent that Douglas used to joke that Sidne
y thought more about his father than he did. Likewise, I am greatly obliged to those who cast a sagacious eye over the manuscript: the writers Stephen Chalke and Paul Edwards, the Yorkshire cricket lover Ron Deaton and the Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club librarian Peter Wynne-Thomas, all of whom helped beyond the call of duty. Not only did they make any number of insightful suggestions, they also spared me from more errors than might otherwise remain.
For help with pictures, my thanks again to Peter Wynne-Thomas and Ron Deaton especially, plus Duncan Anderson, Madeleine Deaton, Tony Debenham, David Frith, David Hall, Ted Kirwan, William H. Roberts, Iain Taylor, Jon Wager, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, the Verity family and Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
I would also like to thank David Allan, Bob Appleyard, Robert Carr, Duncan Hamilton, the late Mary Kilburn and Roy D. Wilkinson. Apologies to anyone I’ve forgotten.
This book could not have been written without access to old newspapers and, for that, I am indebted to staff at the Yorkshire Post, Leeds Central Library, Nottingham Central Library, Nottingham Post and Halifax Courier.
Last but not least, my thanks to publisher Charlotte Atyeo and the team at Bloomsbury.
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