Cricket 1914

I ( I ■ FORMER MEMBER OF NOTTS. AMATEURS ELEVEfJ. I Major Faulkner wap well-known in Nottingham cricket circles, and fot-two years immediately pre­ ceding the war, during which he served with the 10 th Battalion of th^> Worcestershire Regiment, he was a popular member of tho Notts. Amateurs eleven. In tho season of 1914 , while playing for that club he accomplished a truly remarkable sequence of performances, both with bat and ball, and set up a local record, which is scarcely eVer likely to bo equalled. In thac year when he played for the Amateurs on Saturdays, and assisted J. Oahu's Notts. Ramblers X I ir mid-week matches, he ex­ ceeded the century on no fewer than 12 occasions; twice topped the second hundred, and against Notts. Forest and Blackwell Tig captured all ten wickets in an innings. In all matches in 1914 the famous South African cricketer averaged nearly 82 for forty innings (fm ..times not out), and if a score of 120 (retired) against Brondesbury were counted as not out his average was a traction under 85 . In all he aggregated 2,868 runs, and took 218 wickets, the details of his performances being as follows: R uns W kts. Date. For. Against. made, taken. April * 25 .—Notts. Amateurs v. St. Andrew’? ... 4 ,, 28 .—Notts. Commercial v. Lento.i United 28 30 .— Cahn ’3 Scratch XI. v. Notts. Unity 2 .—Notts. Amateurs v. Newark ........... 7 .—Notts. Commercial v. 'Grantham ....... 40 9 .— Notts. Amateurs v. Wayerley ...... 14 .— Notts. Amateurs v. Repton School.. 16 .—Notts. Amateurs v. Forest Amateurs 106 * 21 .—Calm’s XI. v. Radchtfe .................. 67 28 .—Notts. Commercial v. Eastwood 33 .— Notts. Amrteurs v. Notts. Forest 1 .—Cfchn’s XI. v. Keyworth .............. — Forest Amateurs v. Loughborough 4 .—Notts. Commercial v. Notts. Banks 6 .— Notts. Amateurs v. Mansfield Amat. 104 —Notts. Forest v. Lincoln Lindum ... 136 8 .—Notts. Ramblers v. i>ulwiclj ........... 65 * 13 .—Notts. Amateurs v. Leicester Ivanhoe 8 16 .—Notts Ramblers v. Aslitor Unity 64 24 .—Notts. Ramblers v. Lincoln Lindum 62 2 ,i- 6 - 7 .— Leveson-Gower’s XI. v. Oxford U. 70 1 .— Notts. Ramblers v Pallinpswich ... 223 9.— Notts. Ramblers v. South Hampstead 67 11 .— Notts. Amateurs v. Radeliffe ....... 114 15 .— F. S. Jackson's XI. v. G. N. Railway 46 16 .— Notts. Ramblers v. Ashby ........... 56 18 .—Notts. Amateurs v. Waverley ....... 119 20 .—Notts. Ramblers v. Coventry .......... 50 29 .—Notts. Ramblers v. Brondesbury ... 120 t 1 .—Notts. Commercial v. Grantham 69 — Calm ’s XL v. Blackwell .................. 6 13 .— Calm’s XI. v. Ltnton United ............. 17 15 .—Notts. Amateurs v. Newark ........... 33 20 — Notts. Commercial v. Leicester Town 106 ? 2 .— Notts. Amateurs v. Fore?t Amateurs 48 27 .—Notts. Amateurs v. Notts C’omm’l 29 .—Notts. Amateurs v. St. Andrew’s ... 3 .— Notts. C'ommercisl v. Notts. Forest 103 * 5 .— Forest Amateurs v. Derby Midland.. ’, 10 .— Cahn’s XI. v. Shaw’s XI ....... * Denotes not out. t Retired. Richmond, the Notts googly bowler, owed much to Ma jor Faulkner, who taught him . how to spin the ball either way, while it was the South African who really brought out Peebles, and a number of other young cricketers who are now playing a prominent part in first class cricket. May June July > Aug. fep t. 6 4 73 0 o 5 7 98 6 35 Af 9 ‘ 4 202 * 8 82 10 35 5 0 6 106 7 6 5 6 6 5 4 7 / 7 S 4 7 4 46 6 6 4 1 6 1 . 5 69 1 10 17 7 . 1 7 i V * 5 1 59 9 . 147 7 b 6 . 71 5 31 5 ■ I