Famous Cricketers No 1 - Jack Hobbs

c sub b C.Kellaway 14 195-2 - - - - 403 1 274. ENGLAND v AUSTRALIA, Sydney, February 23, 24, (26), 27, 28, (29), March 1 (England won by 70 runs) c V.S.Ransford b H.V.Hordern 32 324 176 c G.R.Hazlitt b H.V.Hordern45 214 292 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test Matches 5 9 1 662 187 82.75 3 1 4 Other matches 6 9 0 281 88 31.22 - 1 4 Tour 11 18 1 943 187 55.47 3 2 8 Career 274 458 28 16684 205 38.80 37 85 139 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i Other matches 18.1 3 62 5 4-25 12.40 - Career (6-ball) 572.5 107 1860 79 7-56 23.54 2 1912 The 1912 season was one of the wettest ever (114 complete days’ play were lost, in all) and Hobbs’ comparatively poor figures must be read in this context. He and David Denton of Yorkshire were the only English players to score 2,000 runs (Bardsley and Macartney did so for the Australians) and he was the outstanding England batsman in the rain-ruined Triangular Tournament. It was a curiosity that Dave Nourse of the South Africans dismissed him four times in eight innings; Nourse was not regarded as a really formidable bowler, but his leg-cutters did earn him 41 Test wickets. Hobbs’ most sensational innings of a rather unsensational summer came at the end of the Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval. The Players were set an impossible target, but Hobbs led off with 50 out of 55 in 21 minutes. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 275. Surrey v Northamptonshire, Kennington Oval, May 2, 3, (4) (Match drawn) c and b W.Wells 2 239 5 0 15 1 F.I.Walden c H.S.Harrison 172 5 3 5 1 G.J.Thompson c H.Strudwick176-6 276. England v The Rest, Kennington Oval, May 6, 7, 8 (England won by an innings and 13 runs) b W.C.Smith 68 352 119 220 277. Surrey v South Africans, Kennington Oval, May 9, 10, 11 (South Africans won by 52 runs) b A.W.Nourse 5 163 3 0 14 0 252 b A.W.Nourse 16 212 - - - - 175 278. Surrey v Worcestershire, Dudley, May 13, 14, (15) (Match drawn) c E.W.Bale b J.A.Cuffe 21 428-4 3 1 9 0 342 279. Surrey v Australians, Kennington Oval, May 16, 17, 18 (Australians won by seven wickets) b S.H.Emery 3 139 5 0 17 0 292 1 c sub b G.R.Hazlitt 81 205† - - - - 54-3 280. Surrey v Gloucestershire, Kennington Oval, May 20, 21 (Surrey won by an innings and 87 runs) run out 27 410 126 197 281. MCC Australian XI v The Rest, Lord’s, May 23, 24, 25 (MCC Australian XI won by an innings and 10 runs) c G.J.Thompson b H.Dean 3 509 237 262 282.§ Surrey v Nottinghamshire, Trent Bridge, May 27, 28, 29 (Nottinghamshire won by nine wickets) lbw b J.Iremonger 13 235 4 1 11 0 444 c T.W.Oates b A.B.Crawford 104 277† - - - - 69-1 283. Surrey v Sussex, Kennington Oval, May 30, 31, June 1 (Surrey won by three wickets) c A.E.Relf b R.K.Simms 0 328 - - - - 164 28