All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

209 Tony Lock they had only previously achieved once, in 1953. The following winter Lock’s career took another twist. Fourteen years after his last Test in the West Indies he played two more there, replacing Fred Titmus who had lost four toes in a boating accident. In the final Test he made a belligerent 89, his best ever first-class score and his third Test fifty, all of which had been made against powerful West Indies attacks. Lock’s final career record was outstanding: 2,844 wickets at 19.23, a total exceeded by only seven bowlers, of whom only Derek Shackleton began his career after the Second World War; 1,713 wickets for Surrey, a total only exceeded by Tom Richardson; 174 Test wickets - only one English spinner, Jim Laker, had taken more; 10,342 runs with the bat - nobody has scored so many runs without a century; and 830 catches - only Frank Woolley and WG Grace took more. After leaving Leicestershire, Lock returned Down Under and became a naturalised Australian. As well as coaching in Perth, Lock was employed as a cricket professional at Mill Hill School in north London. Dying in Perth in March 1995 his final years saw much sadness. Tried and acquitted of indecent assault, he was re-arrested on a second offence but the charge was eventually dropped. Whilst this was going on he was diagnosed with cancer, and had to bear the loss of his wife. It was a tragic end to the life of a wholehearted cricketer.