All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

133 Kent v Lancashire, 1931 County Championship Old Trafford, Manchester on 27, 28, 29 May 1931 (3-day match) Toss won by Lancashire Match drawn Umpires: WA Buswell, A Morton Lancashire 184 (AP Freeman 10-79) and 84-0; Kent 285-9 dec (FE Woolley 108, JL Hopwood 6-55) Lancashire first innings C Hallows b Freeman 9 FB Watson c Woolley b Freeman 19 GE Tyldesley lbw b Freeman 70 J Iddon st Ames b Freeman 4 JL Hopwood b Freeman 2 E Paynter c and b Freeman 39 *PT Eckersley b Freeman 1 FM Sibbles c Crawley b Freeman 8 +G Duckworth not out 7 RK Tyldesley c Valentine b Freeman 1 EA McDonald b Freeman 20 Extras (b 1, lb 1, nb 1, w 1) 4 Total (all out, 88.1 overs) 184 Fall of wickets 1-11, 2-46, 3-62, 4-66, 5-146, 6-147, 7-148, 8-157, 9-159, 10-184 Kent bowling: AE Watt 11-3-19-0, WH Ashdown 18-7-37-0, AP Freeman 36.1-9-79-10, HTW Hardinge, 23-6-45-0 Kent: HTW Hardinge, AM Crawley, FE Woolley, LEG Ames (wk), APF Chapman (capt), BH Valentine, LJ Todd, AE Watt, WH Ashdown, TA Pearce, AP Freeman 1931, another season, another all-ten for Freeman – and once again against Lancashire. After four wins out of four by the end of May, Kent were top of the table as they travelled north to Manchester. Lancashire on the other hand had begun their quest to retain the Championship title badly, and after a season of deplorable weather and affected by loss of form and illness of some of the side, eventually had to settle for sixth place in the table. Unaffected by a long journey from Taunton where they had easily beaten Somerset the previous day, Kent continued their good form, having the better of a match unfortunately left unfinished because of heavy rain which prevented any play on the second day. Lancashire batted first in pleasant weather and in front of a large crowd. Only three batsmen reached 20, and one of those was 40-year- old Australian fast bowler Ted McDonald who went in at number eleven. The Kent attack was opened by the medium-fast bowling of Alan Watt, a 23-year-old just making his way in the side, and the more experienced Bill Ashdown, who is famous for having played first-class cricket in England both before the First World War and after the Second. Both would finish their careers with over 600 wickets, but once they had got the shine off Tich Freeman