Famous Cricketers No 50 - Reg Simpson

Bowling O M R W BB Ave Championship (6-ball) 8.4 2 31 0 - - Career (6-ball) 751.4 221 } 2125 58 36.63 3/22 (8-ball) 3.4 1 1960 The 1960 season was Reg Simpson’s last full season as Nottinghamshire player and captain. He batted down the order, normally at number 4, and scored 1364 runs in the Championship at an average of 29.02 to finish in second place in the Nottinghamshire averages although some way behind Cyril Poole in both average and aggregate. He hit two centuries in consecutive matches at Trent Bridge at the end of June, both of them not out, against Sussex and Leicestershire. He hit eight fifties including an innings of 63 against the South African touring team at Trent Bridge. Nottinghamshire finished in last but one position in the Championship. As a bowler, Simpson took his first wicket for quite some time, that of G.J.Smith of Essex. In the match against Derbyshire at Trent Bridge in August he was no-balled for throwing by umpire Hugo Yarnold, ironically in what was effectively the last over of the match. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 433. Nottinghamshire v Cambridge University, Fenner’s, April 30, May 2, 3 (Cambridge University won by 161 runs) b A.Hurd 0 205 333 1 c A.Hurd b D.Kirby 13 162 195-9d 434. Nottinghamshire v Somerset, Trent Bridge, May 7, 9, 10 (Somerset won by 119 runs) c P.B.Wight b C.R.M.Akinson 45 219 339-9d 1 b C.L.McCool 15 220 219-6d 435. Nottinghamshire v Sussex, Hove, May 14, 16, 17 (Sussex won by ten wickets) b D.L.Bates 0 90 343 b D.L.Bates 0 290 38-0 436. M.C.C. v Essex, Lord’s, May 18, (19), (20) (Match drawn) c B.R.Knight b D.J.Insole 44 302 437. Nottinghamshire v Essex, Trent Bridge, May 21, 23, 24 (Essex won by five wickets) c L.H.R.Ralph b C.B.Clarke 67 227 - - - - 230 c T.E.Bailey b C.B.Clarke 22 197 1.4 0 12 1 G.Smith b 196-5 438. Nottinghamshire v Middlesex, Lord’s, May 25, 26, 27 (Middlesex won by nine wickets) b R.A.Gale 15 146 320-8d c J.T.Murray b D.Bennett 4 205 32-1 439. Nottinghamshire v South Africans, Trent Bridge, May 28, 30, 31 (Match drawn) c A.J.Pithey b T.L.Goddard 63 280 433 c J.H.B.Waite b T.L.Goddard 27 193-4 440. Nottinghamshire v Somerset, Bath, June 1, 2, 3 (Nottinghamshire won by five wickets) c R.T.Virgin b P.B.Wight 29 266 178 1 b B.A.Langford 71 267-5 354 1 441. Nottinghamshire v Surrey, Trent Bridge, June 4, 6, 7 (Surrey won by eight wickets) c J.H.Edrich b E.A.Bedser 5 362 - - - - 295 1 c P.J.Loader b G.A.R.Lock 11 101 1 0 4 0 170-2 1 442. Nottinghamshire v Gloucestershire, Bristol, June 8, 9, 10 (Match drawn) c C.A.Milton b D.R.Smith 14 121 289-1d c B.J.Meyer b D.G.A’Court 37 192-6 443. Nottinghamshire v Warwickshire, Trent Bridge, June 11, 13, 14 (Match drawn) c N.F.Horner b K.Ibadulla 44 181 308-8d c and b G.H.Hill 69 329-4 444. Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire, Worksop, June 15, 16, 17 (Yorkshire won by an innings and 55 runs) c R.Illingworth b J.Birkenshaw 11 157 367-7d run out 23 155 40