Famous Cricketers No 50 - Reg Simpson

1953 35 7 11 - 2 - 5 - 1953/54 11 3 - - - - - - 1954 28 11 2 1 - - - - 1954/55 16 7 - 1 - - 3 - 1955 30 12 2 1 4 - - - 1956 23 11 4 2 3 1 - - 1956/57 3 1 - - - - - - 1957 13 4 2 - - 1 - - 1958 42 7 2 - 2 - 1 - 1959 32 10 4 3 1 - 5 - 1960 32 12 3 3 2 - 6 - 1961 13 2 2 3 - - 3 - 1962 11 1 1 3 - - 4 - 1963 9 2 1 1 1 - - - Totals 492 173 66 35 28 3 54 1 Percentages 57.74 20.30 7.75 4.11 3.29 .35 6.34 .12 Results Table Won Lost Drawn Total Test Matches 11 9 7 27 Gentlemen v Players 2 6 5 11 Championship 75 130 139 344 Other Notts matches 3 4 15 22 M.C.C. in Australia 7 1 11 19 M.C.C. in New Zealand 3 - - 3 M.C.C. in South Africa 5 - 6 11 Commonwealth XI in India 2 2 5 9 Other first-class matches 9 18 20 47 Totals 117 170 208 495 Percentages 23.64 34.34 42.02 Acknowledgments I acknowledge the assistance of the following in the preparation of this book:- 1. Peter Wynne-Thomas and the staff at Trent Bridge cricket ground for making available the original books for Reg Simpson’s career with Nottinghamshire and for their kind assistance when I visited Trent Bridge. 2. The staff of Warrington and Manchester public libraries for their assistance with newspaper research. 3. Messrs Kit Bartlett, Peter Griffiths and David Baggett of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians for their encouragement and their assistance in checking proofs and drafts. 4 Philip Bailey of the ACS and Barrie Watkins, Rev Malcolm Lorimer and Don Ambrose from the Lancashire CCC Library for their help in tracing scores of Simpson’s matches in India in 1944/5 and 1945/6. Sources The following sources have been used:- 1. Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack 1946 to 1964 2. The Cricketer 1945 to 1963 3 Playfair Cricket Monthly 1960 to 1963 4. Playfair Cricket Annual 1948 to 1964 5. Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club by Peter Wynne-Thomas 6. Cricket Journal by John Arlott 7. The Wisden Book of Test Cricket - Volume 1 by Bill Frindall 8. Brown & Co by Jack Fingleton 60