Famous Cricketers No 50 - Reg Simpson

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches in Australia 1 2 0 11 9 5.50 - - - Test matches in New Zealand 2 2 0 44 23 22.00 - - - Other matches 13 23 3 589 136 29.45 1 1 4 Tour 16 27 3 644 136 26.83 1 1 4 Career 305 511 36 20290 259 42.71 50 97 119 Bowling O M R W BB Ave Season (8-ball) 3.4 1 5 2 2/5 2.50 Career (6-ball) 735.3 218 } 2067 57 3/22 36.26 (8-ball) 3.4 1 1955 1955 must have been the season in which Reg Simpson must have started to realise that his Test career might be over. With the retirement of Len Hutton, England were really searching high and low for opening batsmen but they didn’t turn their eyes towards Trent Bridge. At one time or another they tried six different opening batsmen including one, Tom Graveney, who was more at home in the middle order. In truth, Simpson did not have the sort of season that might have encouraged the selectors to pick him. Wisden comments that he was again below his best. He scored 1350 runs in the Championship at an average of 33.75 and 1541 in all matches at an average of 31.44. He made two centuries, against Surrey and Kent, both at Trent Bridge, but he made a number of useful half-centuries including a “double” of 82 and 67 against Leicestershire at Trent Bridge. How he must have loved batting on that ground. Nottinghamshire slipped down the table to eleventh spot but still won ten matches in one of our better summers. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 306. M.C.C. v Surrey, Lord’s, May 4, 5, 6 (Surrey won by seven wickets) c A.J.W.McIntyre b G.A.R.Lock 18 129 159 1 b A.V.Bedser 19 83 55-3 307. Nottinghamshire v Sussex, Trent Bridge, May 7, 9, 10 (Match drawn) b A.E.James 4 185 188 143-8 308. Nottinghamshire v Hampshire, Portsmouth, May 11, 12, 13 (Nottinghamshire won by nine wickets) c J.R.Gray b P.J.Sainsbury 42 357 146 st L.Harrison b M.D.Burden 15 25-1 232 1 309. Nottinghamshire v South Africans, Trent Bridge, May 14, 16, (17) (Match drawn) c N.A.T.Adcock b V.I.Smith 57 231 272 54-0 310. Nottinghamshire v Somerset, Taunton, May 21, 23, 24 (Nottinghamshire won by 8 runs) c D.G.Hughes b J.G.Lomax 14 325 242-7d c R.Smith b Yawar Saeed 54 202-7d 277 1 311. Nottinghamshire v Surrey, Trent Bridge, May 28, 30, 31 (Surrey won by eight wickets) b P.J.Loader 100 353 - - - - 368-6d 1 c G.A.R.Lock b W.S.Surridge 21 202-7d 0.2 0 4 0 188-2 312. Nottinghamshire v Leicestershire, Leicester, June 1, 2, 3 (Leicestershire won by three wickets) b C.T.Spencer 21 183 186 b V.E.Jackson 23 178 176-7 313. Nottinghamshire v Kent, Blackheath, June 4, 6, (7) (Match drawn) b J.Pettiford 33 339 290 13-0 314. Nottinghamshire v Glamorgan, Llanelli, June 8, 9, 10 (Match drawn) st H.G.Davies b J.S.Pressdee82 291 286 c J.S.Pressdee b K.H.Lewis 11 116-5 30