All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

112 first innings, Armstrong had sarcastically thrown the ball to Mailey at the beginning of the second and suggested that he bowl at the good batsmen, and then he would come on and finish the tail. However it didn’t work out like that. At 59 for five it looked like the match might be over in two days. However, Keigwin again batted well and took the score to 109 before his partner Harry Rowlands was bowled for 23 just before close of play. Mailey had so far taken all six wickets, five bowled (including a bamboozled Hammond who took ten minutes to score a single) and one caught and bowled. Next morning, after early rain, Keigwin found another stubborn partner in Frederick Seabrook and they took the score to 158 before he was finally caught for 65. Thirty-eight-year-old Keigwin had won a Blue in each of his four years at Cambridge, played for Essex and briefly for Gloucestershire after moving there to become a master at Clifton College. However, he had a modest career, averaging 19.79 from 74 matches, and so his success against a strong Australian attack must have been a bit of a surprise. An exceptional scholar-athlete, he won Blues at three other sports, played hockey for England, and was made a knight of the order of Danneborg for his services to Danish literature. Like all the amateurs, Keigwin emerged from a tent whilst the professionals came out from the gymnasium! The last three wickets fell quickly and the match was over before lunch. Mailey had bowled unchanged. Charlie Parker was the one batsman to evade him, although he had dismissed him in the first innings, stumped by Sammy Carter, the only Yorkshireman playing in the match. Nearly one in five of Mailey’s eventual 779 first-class wickets were stumped, but Parker was the only one of his 13 victims in the match to fall this way. And another umpire had achieved a hat-trick of all-tens. Remarkably Arthur Millward’s first had been Sammy Woods back in 1890 (followed by Drake’s in 1914). An early finish gave the Australians a bit more time to get to Taunton next day for another innings victory. Still unbeaten, they famously then lost their next match against Archie MacLaren’s England XI at Eastbourne, and then a second at Scarborough against C.I.Thornton’s XI. Mailey was last man out in each match, but then he did go in at eleven. Mailey toured Britain again in 1926, taking another 100 wickets and finishing his Test career with 99 wickets. Although he had a modest batting record his last wicket partnership of 127 with Johnny Taylor at Sydney in December 1924 was an Australian Test record that stood until 2013. Multi- talented, he was a particularly skilled cartoonist and his autobiography, memorably entitled 10 for 66 and all that , contains many humorous examples of his art. In his last first-class appearance, at Melbourne in 1930 for The Rest against an Australian XI, a match played for the benefit of former colleague Jack Ryder, he dismissed Don Bradman in both innings in the great man’s second match on return from his breakthrough tour of Britain. Journalism and cricket of a more leisurely nature took him abroad many times: in 1932 he organised, and played in, a very successful tour to North America, which was also Don Bradman’s honeymoon. Mailey ended his days in Cronulla, a Sydney beachside suburb, enjoying Arthur Mailey