All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

80 Ernie Vogler Eastern Province v Griqualand West, 1906/07 Currie Cup Old Wanderers Pirates Lower Back Ground, Johannesburg on 26, 27, 28 December 1906 (3-day match) Toss won by Eastern Province Eastern Province won by an innings and 301 runs Umpires: AJ Atfield, WH Creese Eastern Province 403 (DS Lumsden 103, GA Verheyen 5-122); Griqualand West 51 (AEE Vogler 6-12) and 51 (AEE Vogler 10-26) Griqualand West second innings RHG Percy b Vogler 0 SAL Olver b Vogler 0 TA Eden b Vogler 7 W Dickens c and b Vogler 0 *AP Eland b Vogler 0 GA Verheyen lbw b Vogler 0 SW Windsor b Vogler 2 GT Hitchman not out 19 LG Wright b Vogler 7 GF Fletcher c Hibbert b Vogler 0 +HJ Druce c and b Vogler 4 Extras (b 12) 12 Total (all out, 23 overs) 51 Fall of wickets 1-0, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-5, 6-5, 7-18, 8-42, 9-42, 10-51 Eastern Province bowling : AEE Vogler 12-2-26-10, AT Lyons 9-6-10-0, MA Bell 2-0-3-0 Eastern Province: RP Hannam, DS Lumsden, MA Bell, C Fock, AEE Vogler, FJ Hippert, AT Lyons, WA Glisson, HT Hibbert (capt), A Melvill (wk), J Loots Having developed the googly to a level where it was lethal enough to win Test matches, England’s Bernard Bosanquet passed the baton to the famous ‘googly quartet’ who toured Britain with the 1907 South Africans. Opinions differed whether Aubrey Faulkner, Reggie Schwarz, Ernie Vogler, or Gordon White was the best, but arguably for a brief period Vogler was at least the second-best bowler in the world (after England’s Sydney Barnes). Following a stuttering run-up Vogler’s stock ball was a leg break with, as alternatives, a well disguised googly, a top spinner and a slow yorker. All this he combined with accuracy and deceptive variation of flight and pace. In South Africa the difficulties batsmen faced in countering these new- fangled varieties were compounded by the extra bounce due to the use of matting pitches. (Turf was not used for a Test in South Africa until 1931.) Born in Cape Province in 1876, the young Vogler had moved around a bit: his boyhood was spent in Durban, and he later moved to Pretoria. He made his first-class debut, for Natal against Transvaal at Johannesburg, on his birthday, 28 November 1903. Deciding that he wanted to become