All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

145 Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, 1932 County Championship Headingley, Leeds on 9, 11, 12 July 1932 (3-day match) Toss won by Nottinghamshire Yorkshire won by ten wickets Umpires: HG Baldwin, W Reeves Nottinghamshire 234 and 67 (H Verity 10-10); Yorkshire 163-9 dec (H Larwood 5-73) and 139-0 Nottinghamshire second innings WW Keeton c Macaulay b Verity 21 FW Shipston c Wood b Verity 21 W Walker c Macaulay b Verity 11 *AW Carr c Barber b Verity 0 A Staples c Macaulay b Verity 7 CB Harris c Holmes b Verity 0 GV Gunn lbw b Verity 0 +B Lilley not out 3 H Larwood c Sutcliffe b Verity 0 W Voce c Holmes b Verity 0 SJ Staples st Wood b Verity 0 Extras (b 3, nb 1) 4 Total (all out, 47.4 overs) 67 Fall of wickets 1-44, 2-47, 3-51, 4-63, 5-63, 6-63, 7-64, 8-64, 9-67, 10-67 Yorkshire bowling: WE Bowes 5-0-19-0, GG Macaulay 23-9-34-0, H Verity 19.4-16-10-10 Yorkshire: P Holmes, H Sutcliffe, A Mitchell, M Leyland, W Barber, AB Sellers (capt), A Wood (wk), AC Rhodes, H Verity, GG Macaulay, WE Bowes Records are meant to be broken but Verity’s next, and even greater, all- ten will take some beating. Headingley wasn’t looking its best as the double-fronted rugby and cricket stand was in the throes of being rebuilt following a fire three months earlier. Nottinghamshire were a strong side; County Champions three years before they would finish fourth in 1932. Ten of the team were already first-class centurions, and the eleventh, Charlie Harris, would make the first, and second (a double), of his eventual 30 centuries the following season. However, batting first, they entertained the Headingley crowd by taking up the whole of Saturday in scoring 234 in 132 overs against aggressive Yorkshire outcricket, Harold Larwood top scoring with 48. Verity took a modest two for 64, and it was another slow left-armer, England batsman Maurice Leyland, who had the best figures, running through the tail to finish with four for 14 from 8.2 overs. A more than useful bowler the burly Leyland might have bettered his nearly 500 first-class wickets had he played for a less well-endowed county. Yorkshire faltered in turn against the pace of the England pair Larwood and Voce. Sutcliffe, easily the season’s leading run-scorer, went for a duck, and Yorkshire were struggling at 163 for nine when a thunderstorm halted play at 4 o’clock on Monday. Play could not start again until 12.30 on Tuesday and in a daring move Brian Sellers immediately declared, still 71 Hedley Verity