All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

169 Frank Smailes veins were affecting his form. It had been an interesting last season: he occasionally led the side when Norman Yardley and Brian Sellers were unavailable, he took nine wickets in the match at Bradford as Yorkshire came close to defeating the eventually undefeated Australians, and his benefit yielded over £5,000 although his chosen match, against Surrey at Bramall Lane, was over in two days. After Yorkshire Smailes became a professional at Walsall for five years and for a time kept the ‘Sportsman’s Arms’ at Wath near Ripon. After a long illness he died in 1970 aged only 60.