Famous Cricketers No 58 - Trevor Bailey

not out 5 206-8 12 1 42 0 291-7d 196. Gentlemen v Players, Scarborough, September 6, 8, 9 (Match drawn) c A.V.Bedser b J.H.Wardle 31 270 24 5 66 1 D.G.W.Fletcher c D.J.Insole 321-7d c R.Smith b A.V.Bedser 24 252-8 14.5 3 41 3 D.G.W.Fletcher b 202-5d T.W.Graveney c D.V.Brennan T.G.Evans c C.H.Palmer 197. T.N.Pearce’s XI v Indians, Scarborough, September 10, 11, 12 (Match drawn) c P.Sen b D.G.Phadkar 13 68 24 8 41 8 D.K.Gaekwad c L.Hutton 258 V.L.Manjrekar b V.S.Hazare lbw H.R.Adhikari b P.R.Umrigar b D.G.Phadkar b H.G.Gaekwad b P.Sen c C.N.McCarthy not out 17 116-7 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Gentlemen v Players 2 4 1 96 31 32.00 - - 1 Championship 26 38 7 1115 155* 35.96 1 4 13 Other Essex matches 3 6 1 159 67 31.80 - 1 2 Other matches 5 8 6 143 45* 71.50 - - 4 Season 36 56 15 1513 155* 36.90 1 5 20 Career 197 300 62 7810 205 32.81 7 40 123 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Gentlemen v Players 74.2 15 211 7 3-41 30.14 - - 63.71 47.30 Championship 865.3 207 2202 71 5-44 31.01 4 - 73.14 42.40 Other Essex matches 86 18 240 8 3-24 30.00 - - 64.50 46.51 Other matches 145.2 38 344 17 8-41 20.23 1 - 51.29 39.44 Season 1171.1 278 2997 103 8-41 29.09 5 - 68.22 42.64 Career (6-ball) 5542.2 1232 } 15830 628 10-90 25.20 39 5 55.37 45.52 (8-ball) 190.1 34 1953 Stirring deeds were afoot in England in the summer of 1953. There was the Coronation of the new Queen, Elizabeth II, Gordon Richards won his first Derby, Stanley Matthews won a FA Cup winners medal, and last, but by no means least, England beat Australia in an Ashes series for the first time since 1932/33. Trevor Bailey played a full part in this triumph making himself a thorn in the flesh of the Australians throughout the summer. His first encounter with them came in their match against M.C.C. at Lord’s in May. The tourists arrived at Lord’s with four successive innings victories in their last four matches and when they had shot M.C.C. out for 80 and achieved a 99-run lead on first innings they looked on course for a fifth victory. Bailey, however, defied them scoring 64 in three hours and forty minutes to secure a draw. In the First Test at Trent Bridge he helped Alec Bedser demolish the Australian tail turning a score of 244-4 into one of 249 all out. At Lord’s in the Second Test England were in serious trouble. Set 343 to win they had been reduced to 73-4 when Bailey joined Willie Watson with five hours remaining for play. To this point Bailey’s highest Test Match score against Australia was 15 but he now proceeded to defy their best efforts for four and a quarter hours scoring 71 runs and adding 163 with Watson in one of Test Cricket’s most memorable partnerships. In a rain affected match at Old Trafford, Bailey scored 27, but then came another match saving effort at Headingley in the Fourth Test. Here he dropped anchor for four hours twenty minutes scoring only 38 runs but using up valuable time as Australia pushed for victory on the final day. When Australia, set 177 to win, looked likely to achieve that goal, Bailey then proceeded to thwart them again by bowling outside the leg stump to a packed leg-side field and taking 1-9 in six overs. The deciding Test Match was at Kennington Oval. It is possible that without Bailey’s efforts to date 27