All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

221 Tony Pearson Pearson had been studying medicine at Cambridge and went to Bristol for clinical studies where he played for his old club Clifton, an experience enhanced by the presence of Barry Richards and Mike Procter who had just come over from South Africa. He took up squash, and when he moved to London in 1969 applied to join Hampstead Cricket Club as a squash member. Finding that a number of the cricket team were Oxbridge contemporaries and that they had just won the national club cricket championship, he played with them for three summers before giving up after an injury. Speaking to the author, Tony Pearson recalled cricket at Cambridge as a privilege in terms of the time off to play, the facilities at Fenner’s and the standard of cricket that cricketers recently out of school were now able to play. He found it great fun, although initially rather intimidating, and recognised that although there were a number of good individual performances the side was often not quite good enough to push home an advantage. At Somerset the quality of the close catching in particular highlighted the missed opportunities at Cambridge. He modestly acknowledges the part that the batting of Craig and Goodfellow played in Cambridge’s victory over Leicestershire, and the element of chance in an all-ten: in his case dropped catches off other bowlers - and the near run out of the last batsman off a ricochet!.