Famous Cricketers No 58 - Trevor Bailey

Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Test matches 65 17 168 0 - - - - - 43.07 Gentlemen v Players 42 4 155 4 3-71 38.75 - - 63.00 61.50 Championship 644.2 192 1360 78 7-45 17.43 6 - 49.57 35.16 Other Essex matches 75 24 159 6 3-12 26.50 - - 75.00 35.33 Other matches 48 8 99 3 2-33 33.00 - - 96.00 34.37 Season 874.3 245 1941 91 7-45 21.32 6 - 57.65 36.99 Career (6-ball) 4371.1 954 } 12833 525 10-90 24.44 34 5 52.85 46.24 (8-ball) 190.1 34 1952 Bailey did not make any Test appearances in 1952 against the Indians, although he made a notable appearance against them at Scarborough for T.N.Pearce’s XI when he took 8 wickets for 41 runs in their only innings. Other than that he had a successful season performing the double by scoring 1513 runs at an average of 36.90 and taking 103 wickets at 29.09. His 71 Championship wickets for Essex were rather more expensive than normal costing 31.01 runs each. This may have had something to do with the excellent batting wickets prepared for Essex home games. Their leading bowler, Ray Smith, finished 76th in the first-class averages and had the highest average of any leading bowler amongst the seventeen Counties. Bailey finished fourth in the Essex bowling averages and third in the batting, scoring a century (155 not out) against Kent at Tunbridge Wells. He took part in an exciting game against Lancashire at Brentwood. When the last over started Essex needed nine to win with their last pair together. Bailey hit the first ball for six and the second for two, played the third and was caught off the fourth as the match ended in a tie. He took nine wickets against Hampshire at Southampton and seven against Warwickshire at Southend-on-Sea. By the end of the season he had made 7,810 first-class runs and taken 628 wickets. He was ready for the battle for The Ashes with Australia in 1953. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 162. M.C.C. v Yorkshire, Lord’s, April 30, May 1 (M.C.C. won by an innings and 23 runs) not out 27 318 11 4 29 0 142 1 6 4 4 0 153 1 163. Essex v Cambridge University, Fenner’s, May 7, 8, 9 (Match drawn) b R.J.A.MacGinty 9 242 18 6 24 3 D.S.Sheppard lbw 208 P.B.H.May b F.C.M.Alexander b not out 14 197-5d 12 5 32 1 F.C.M.Alexander c T.C.Dodds 220-7 2 164. Essex v Derbyshire, County Ground, Chelmsford, May 10, 12, 13 (Essex won by nine wickets) lbw b H.L.Jackson 5 230 22 4 58 2 A.Hamer lbw 233 1 G.O.Dawkes b did not bat - 133-1 22.1 8 39 3 G.L.Willatt lbw 127 J.M.Kelly b H.L.Jackson lbw 165. Essex v T.N.Pearce’s XI, County Ground, Chelmsford, May 14, 15 (T.N.Pearce’s XI won by an innings and 25 runs) c T.G.Evans b G.Goonesena 40 205 21 2 88 2 A.C.Revill c T.C.Dodds 389-9d T.G.Evans b b G.Goonesena 9 159 166. M.C.C. v Indians, Lord’s, May 17, 19, 20 (Match drawn) not out 17 383-8d 27 9 44 3 P.R.Umrigar c J.T.Ikin 255 2 G.S.Ramchand b C.T.Sarwate lbw did not bat - 83-2d 10 1 34 1 P.Roy lbw 188-3 167. Essex v Surrey, Ilford, May 21, 22, 23 (Match drawn) b G.A.R.Lock 38 323 24 5 66 1 D.G.W.Fletcher c P.A.Gibb 417-9d not out 17 251-7 12 4 30 0 227-7d 24