All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

90 Alonzo Drake Yorkshire v Somerset, 1914 County Championship Clarence Park, Weston-super-Mare on 27, 28 August 1914 (3-day match) Toss won by Yorkshire Yorkshire won by 140 runs Umpires: A Millward, AE Street Yorkshire 162 (JJ Bridges 5-59) and 112 (E Robson 5-38); Somerset 44 (MW Booth 5-27, A Drake 5-16) and 90 (A Drake 10-35) Somerset second innings BL Bisgood c Dolphin b Drake 11 +H Chidgey b Drake 4 E Robson c Birtles b Drake 3 LC Braund b Drake 9 BD Hylton Stewart st Dolphin b Drake 3 W Hyman st Dolphin b Drake 4 *ESM Poyntz c Oldroyd b Drake 5 PP Hope c and b Drake 19 HW Saunders b Drake 0 JD Harcombe b Drake 26 JJ Bridges not out 1 Extras (b 4, nb 1) 5 Total (all out, 17.5 overs) 90 Fall of wickets 1-13, 2-20, 3-25, 4-28, 5-33, 6-38, 7-49, 8-52, 9-89, 10-90 Yorkshire bowling : MW Booth 9-0-50-0, A Drake 8.5-0-35-10 Yorkshire: MW Booth, BB Wilson, D Denton, R Kilner, W Rhodes, TJD Birtles, A Drake, P Holmes, GH Hirst (capt), E Oldroyd, A Dolphin (wk) Another tragic figure of Edwardian cricket, Alonzo Drake was born in Rotherham in 1884. He bowled left-arm slow to medium pace. Swinging and spinning the ball, he could be irresistible when conditions favoured him. He was also an attacking left-hand batsman, twice scoring 1,000 runs in a season. Drake made his county debut in 1909 at a time when Yorkshire needed to plan for the future. George Hirst and Schofield Haigh were nearing 40, and it was hoped that Drake and Major Booth in particular would help form the nucleus of the next Championship-winning team. A forward, Drake was also a talented footballer, notably for Sheffield United, but he also came down south to play for Queen’s Park Rangers. It appears however that he gave up the professional game when his cricket career began to take off. His bowling continued to develop and in 1914 he took 158 wickets, a total only exceeded that season by Colin Blythe and Hampshire’s Alex Kennedy. Just over a month before the Weston match he performed another rare feat, taking 4 wickets in 4 balls against Derbyshire at Chesterfield. Clarence Park was staging its first cricket festival. By the time the seaside