Famous Cricketers No 40 - Neil Harvey

succession came in the Old Trafford Test. He came in at 48-3 and had made only four when he slashed wildly at a ball from T.E.Bailey and snicked it to wicket-keeper T.G.Evans, who in the act of tossing the ball up dropped it. Harvey and G.B.Hole (66) then proceeded to add 173 runs which was 54.40% of the Australian total. Ironically Harvey was dismissed by the most brilliant catch by Evans after batting for three hours for his 122 with eleven fours. In the second innings he became the eighth Australian to be dismissed for a hundred and a duck in the same Test. At Headingley he scored an entertaining 71 with nine fours in 152 minutes. Australia were left 177 to win the game in 115 minutes and when Harvey came in to bat they had scored 54 in thirty-eight minutes; Harvey and Hole added 57 in the next half hour before Harvey was dismissed having scored 34 in thirty-one minutes. Australia at this point had scored 111 in sixty-nine minutes, leaving 66 to be scored in forty-six minutes. Bailey came in to the attack at this stage and slowed the scoring down by bowling down the leg-side and Australia finished thirty runs short with six wickets in hand. A.V.Bedser was missing from the Surrey side in the next game when Harvey scored his ninth hundred of the season, joining A.L.Hassett (67) in a partnership of 117 in sixty-nine minutes, his 113 coming in 123 minutes with a six and eleven fours. Probably his finest innings of the season followed at Swansea against Glamorgan. Not out twenty overnight on the Bank Holiday Monday he thrashed the Glamorgan attack and added 132 runs out of a total of 172 before lunch; out soon after lunch his 180 came out of 240 with three sixes and twenty-eight fours. When he reached 99 he became the fifth Australian batsman after V.T.Trumper, C.G.McCartney, D.G.Bradman and A.R.Morris to score 3,000 runs in a calendar year. At this point he had scored 1847 runs (83.95) on the tour. In his next eleven innings he added only 193 more to this and it took him until the last match at Scarborough to get the runs to take him past 2000 for the season. He thus joined an impressive list of Australians to have completed this feat - V.T.Trumper, M.A.Noble, W.Bardsley, C.G.Macartney, S.J.McCabe and D.G.Bradman; since then only the name of W.M.Lawry has been added. He was beaten in the averages for the tour by W.A.Johnston who batted seventeen times and remained undefeated in sixteen of them to average 102.00; to counter this Harvey headed the bowling averages with four wickets at 10.75. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 107. Australians v Leicestershire, Leicester, May 2, 4 (Australians won by an innings and 154 runs) not out 202 443-8d 109 1 180 2 108. Australians v Yorkshire, Bradford, May 6, 7, 8 (Australians won by an innings and 94 runs) c J.V.Wilson b J.H.Wardle 37 453-6d 145 214 109. Australians v Surrey, Kennington Oval, May 9, 11 (Australians won by an innings and 76 runs) b A.V.Bedser 66 256 58 122 110. Australians v Cambridge University, Fenner’s, May 13, 14 (Australians won by an innings and 106 runs) c J.P.K.Asquith b T.Hare 25 383 130 1 147 1 111. Australians v M.C.C., Lord’s, May (16), 18, 19 (Match drawn) c D.C.S.Compton b J.H.Wardle 33 179 80 1 did not bat - 13-2 196 1 112. Australians v Minor Counties, Michelin Ground, Stoke-on-Trent, May 23, 25 (Australians won by an innings and 171 runs) b A.G.Coomb 109 289 56 62 113. Australians v Lancashire, Old Trafford, May (27), 28, 29 (Match drawn) c G.A.Edrich b J.B.Statham 103 298 232-9 114. Australians v Sussex, Hove, June 3, 4, 5 (Match drawn) c and b A.S.M.Oakman 82 325 218 not out 137 259-1d 190-9 115. Australians v Hampshire, Southampton, June 6, 8 (Australians won by 158 runs) c E.D.R.Eagar b J.R.Gray 109 268 131 c D.Shackleton b V.H.D.Cannings 14 169-5d 148 18