escaped with a draw. In 36 matches against Derbyshire, Hollies took 159 wickets at 18.41; memory can still recall the good-humoured Revill cheerfully groping forward in a desperate attempt to smother the spin and the fair-haired, likeable bowler smiling at him down the pitch. Gardner continued to make runs; a hundred in the 1958 Whit match at Derby and 65 at Edgbaston, when Gladwin routed Warwickshire’s second innings to set up a seven-wicket victory. Whitsuntide 1959 brought change as Derbyshire met Leicestershire and Northamptonshire facedWarwickshire in a fixture switch. Maurice Hallammade 200 at Grace Road; Willie Watson added 150 at Derby to his century at Whit, Carr also getting a hundred in the August game. Warwickshire were beaten at Northampton, where there were hundreds for Townsend and Raman Subba Row, and drew the Edgbaston return. In the latter Mike Smith hit 142 not out in a total of 252, Frank Tyson taking five for 59. This was a fascinating game for Warwickshire came into it joint top in the Championship with Surrey, who, however, had two matches in hand. After Mick Norman made his first hundred in county cricket, Raman Subba Row declared on Saturday at 257 for nine, Tyson dismissing Jim Stewart before the close. Season after season, Tyson was condemned to bowl on Northampton pitches which favoured spin and offered him little. This and the passage of time and recovery from a recent ankle injury meant he was below the lightening pace which caused such havoc in Australia five years earlier but he was still very hostile and could swing the ball sharply and late. In the second half of the 1959 season he regained some of his former fire and on August Bank Holiday Monday Warwickshire were on the receiving end at Edgbaston. Nine wickets were down for 174 – four of them to Tyson – when Ossie Wheatley joined MJK Smith, who was having the season of his life: 3,245 runs, eight centuries – including one for England - and an average of 57.94 placing him at the head of the national averages. He was on 74 when Wheatley came in; now with a superb exhibition of farming the bowling and stroke play he guided Warwickshire to 252 for nine, just six away from a first innings lead and bonus points. But Tyson, in his fifth over with the new ball, bowled Wheatley for 10 with a near-yorker on the leg stump. The pair had added 78 for the last wicket and Smith’s innings included 18 fours and three sixes. The next three seasons, 1960, 1961 and 1962, saw Derbyshire meeting Northamptonshire and Warwickshire facing Leicestershire as the variation continued. The Courtaulds’ ground at Coventry was the venue for the 1960 Whitsuntide match, which found Warwickshire hanging on for a draw after a fine innings by Smith and they had the better of two close finishes in 1961, by 37 runs at Leicester and by two wickets at Edgbaston. There was drama aplenty for Derbyshire and Northamptonshire in 1961. At Northampton, Mickey Allen’s left-arm slows brought match figures of 13-98, Northamptonshire winning by 129 runs. When the teams reconvened at Derby in August, Carr declared at 279 for six early on Bank Holiday Monday and Harold Rhodes was then no-balled three times in succession by the square-leg umpire Paul Gibb for alleged throwing. Carr took Rhodes off but used him subsequently from the other end, Arthur Jepson, standing at square-leg, finding nothing wrong. These were the years of the great throwing controversy which dominated world cricket and Rhodes was also called by Gibb in 1960 and Syd Buller in 1965, both in matches against the South Africans. His action – his arm had an unusual backward extension of the elbow joint – was eventually declared fair after what Derbyshire, Warwickshire and Others 151