Famous Cricketers No 1 - Jack Hobbs

381.§ Surrey v Kent, Blackheath, July 30, 31, August 1 (Match drawn) b A.P.Day 122 509† 349 260-7 382.§ Surrey v Nottinghamshire, Kennington Oval, August 3, 4, 5 (Match drawn) b J.Iremonger 226 542† 5 2 10 0 283-6 1 383. Surrey v Worcestershire, Worcester, August 6, 7, 8 (Match drawn) c R.D.Burrows b W.H.Taylor 126 365† 5 2 13 3 W.H.Taylor c W.J.Abel 262 1 A.T.Cliff b J.A.Cuffe b st E.W.Bale b J.A.Cuffe 4 147 384. Surrey v Kent, Lord’s, August 10, 11 (Surrey won by eight wickets) lbw b C.Blythe 16 234 140 not out 26 47-2† 140 385.§ Surrey v Yorkshire, Lord’s, August 13, 14, 15 (Surrey won by an innings and 30 runs) st A.Dolphin b A.Drake 202 549-6d† - - - - 204 3 1 6 0 315 386. Surrey v Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, August 17, 18 (Surrey won by an innings and 25 runs) c F.H.Bateman-Champain b E.G.Dennett 48 317 182 110 387.§ Surrey v Middlesex, Lord’s, August 22, 24, 25 (Match drawn) st H.R.Murrell b F.A.Tarrant56 206† 4 1 8 0 381 2 c and b J.W.Hearne 63 252-6† - - - - 215-6d 388. Surrey v Warwickshire, Edgbaston, August 27, 28, 29 (Warwickshire won by 80 runs) b P.Jeeves 16 126 177 b E.F.Field 17 130 159 389.§§ Surrey v Gloucestershire, Kennington Oval, August 31, September 1 (Surrey won by an innings and 36 runs) c H.Smith b T.H.Toogood 141 400† 100 1 264 1 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Gentlemen v Players 2 4 0 176 156 44.00 1 - 2 Championship 26 42 2 2499 226 62.47 10 6 13 Other matches 1 2 0 22 16 11.00 - - - Season 29 48 2 2697 226 58.63 11 6 15 Career 389 645 43 25517 226 42.39 65 125 197 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i Championship 31 6 87 3 3-13 29.00 - Career (6-ball) 714.5 137 2292 88 7-56 26.04 2 We may pause to take stock of Hobbs’ figures when the War came to interrupt his career. At the age of 31 years 8 months he had scored: I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 645 43 25517 226 42.39 65 125 His aggregate was considerable for a man of his age - only 13 players had exceeded it at that time, and, among players who had scored any substantial number of runs, only Ranjitsinhji, Fry, Trumper and Clem Hill had a better average. Few, however, can have dreamed that, starting again in his 37th year, he would score almost 40,000 runs more. 1919 The two-day matches played in the County Championship this year did not altogether suit Hobbs, and he had what was, for him, a lean spell in mid-season. Wisden commented that he seemed too eager to 36