All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

206 Tony Lock Surrey v Kent, 1956 County Championship The Rectory Field, Blackheath on 7, 9, 10 July 1956 (3-day match) Surrey won by an innings and 173 runs Umpires: H Elliott, WFF Price Surrey 404-4 dec (TH Clark 191, PBH May 128 not out); Kent 101 (GAR Lock 6-29) and 130 (GAR Lock 10-54) Kent second innings AH Phebey b Lock 12 MC Cowdrey lbw b Lock 8 RC Wilson b Lock 32 +TG Evans c and b Lock 19 AE Fagg c AV Bedser b Lock 21 AL Dixon b Lock 2 DG Ufton not out 17 F Ridgway c Stewart b Lock 7 DJ Halfyard c Barrington b Lock 0 JCT Page b Lock 0 *DVP Wright b Lock 0 Extras (b 6, lb 5, nb 1) 12 Total (all out, 71.1 overs) 130 Fall of wickets 1-20, 2-29, 3-60, 4-84, 5-101, 6-104, 7-130, 8-130, 9-130, 10-130 Surrey bowling: PJ Loader 8-3-7-0, AV Bedser 16-5-41-0, GAR Lock 29.1- 18-54-10, EA Bedser 18-10-16-0 Surrey: TH Clark, MJ Stewart, KF Barrington, PBH May, REC Pratt, EA Bedser, R Swetman (wk), WS Surridge (capt), GAR Lock, AV Bedser, PJ Loader Tony Lock might have been a left-arm slow(ish) bowler, but he had a fast bowler’s temperament. ‘Always in the game’, the title of an article written about him for the Playfair Cricket Monthly by Neville Cardus, aptly sums up his career, the most remarkable feature of which was that he reinvented himself as a bowler not once (a difficult enough feat) but twice, achieving record-breaking figures after both reincarnations. If that wasn’t enough, he was one of the greatest close fielders ever, a useful batsman and, later in his career, inspired Leicestershire and Western Australia to levels of achievement never attained before, both by his forceful captaincy and his own performances on the field. Born in Limpsfield, Surrey in 1929 he made his first-class debut against Kent just a week after his 17th birthday – still Surrey’s youngest-ever player. Although he didn’t take any wickets his first over was a maiden. Appropriately he also took the first of many brilliant catches, diving at backward short leg to pick up Arthur Phebey from an Alf Gover bouncer. After National Service Lock became a Surrey regular. A flighty bowler with minimal spin he had been doing well enough, but it was clear that he