Famous Cricketers No 50 - Reg Simpson

Bowling O M R W BB Ave Championship 145 48 367 6 2/67 61.16 Other Notts matches 16 2 42 1 1/4 42.00 Season (6-ball) 161 50 409 7 2/67 58.42 Career (6-ball) 560.1 177 1455 41 3/22 35.48 1952 The 1952 season saw Simpson exceed 2000 runs in all competitions with an aggregate of 2222 runs at an average of 41.92. He was fourteenth in the national averages. He played in the first two Test matches against India, at Headingley and Lord’s but lost his opener’s spot to David Sheppard at Old Trafford and Kennington Oval. In the Championship he hit 1674 runs at 47.82 to head the Nottinghamshire averages once again. The Trent Bridge pitches still proved a nightmare for bowlers with only five definite results as against ten draws at the ground this season. Nottinghamshire improved only one place to last but one in the Championship table. Simpson hit two double centuries at Trent Bridge, against Sussex and Warwickshire and he made a single century there against Somerset. To prove he could make runs on other grounds he hit 163 at Hinckley against Leicestershire. He scored 101 against the Indians at Lord’s for MCC giving what Wisden describes as “a magnificent exhibition of free stroke play”. In the Tests he hit two fifties against a touring side who were generally outclassed. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 190. Nottinghamshire v Kent, Gillingham, May 3, 5, 6 (Kent won by 33 runs) c R.Mayes b R.R.Dovey 77 309 - - - - 201 c S.O’Linn b D.V.P.Wright 78 191 3 1 3 0 332 1 191. Nottinghamshire v Northamptonshire, Trent Bridge, May 10, 12, 13 (Northamptonshire won by ten wickets) lbw b A.E.Nutter 1 138 305-8d c F.Jakeman b R.W.Clarke 11 182 16-0 192. T.N.Pearce’s XI v Essex, Chelmsford, May 14, 15 (T.N.Pearce’s XI won by an innings and 25 runs) b W.T.Greensmith 41 389-9d 205 159 193. M.C.C. v Indians, Lord’s, May 17, 19, 20 (Match drawn) c C.D.Gopinath b Ghulam Ahmed 101 383-8d 255 1 c V.S.Hazare b G.S.Ramchand 8 82-2d 188-3 194. Nottinghamshire v Lancashire, Old Trafford, May 24, 26, 27 (Lancashire won by an innings and 29 runs) c W.Place b R.Tattersall 31 165 9 6 15 1 J.T.Ikin c P.F.Harvey 392-9d c A.Wilson b J.B.Statham 49 198 195. M.C.C. v Lancashire, Lord’s, May 28, 29, 30 (Lancashire won by eight wickets) c and b K.J.Grieves 44 231 - - - - 329 1 b J.G.Lomax 9 182 5 1 10 0 85-2 196. Nottinghamshire v Surrey, Trent Bridge, May 31, June 2, 3 (Surrey won by 210 runs) c D.G.W.Fletcher b E.A.Bedser 27 222 3 2 2 2 A.J.W.McIntyre b 339-8d A.V.Bedser lbw b A.V.Bedser 17 52 10 1 44 3 B.Constable c E.A.Meads 145-6d L.B.Fishlock c A.Jepson J.F.Parker c E.J.Martin 197. ENGLAND v INDIA, Headingley, June 5, 6, 7, 9 (England won by seven wickets) c G.S.Ramchand b Ghulam Ahmed 23 334 293 c M.K.Mantri b Ghulam Ahmed 51 128-3 165 198. Nottinghamshire v Leicestershire, Hinckley, June 11, 12, (13) (Match drawn) lbw b C.H.Palmer 163 294 12 4 37 0 372-8d not out 10 22-1 199. Nottinghamshire v Derbyshire, Trent Bridge, June (14), 16, 17 (Match drawn) lbw b C.Gladwin 3 353-6d 16 9 30 1 D.C.Morgan c E.A.Meads 325 2 21