Famous Cricketers No 58 - Trevor Bailey

344. ENGLAND v SOUTH AFRICA, Wanderers, Johannesburg, February 15, 16, 18, 19, 20 (South Africa won by 17 runs) c J.H.B.Waite b N.A.T.Adcock 13 251 21 3 54 3 A.J.Pithey c J.H.Wardle 340 1 T.L.Goddard b K.J.Funston c T.G.Evans c W.R.Endean b H.J.Tayfield 1 214 13 4 12 2 T.L.Goddard c T.G.Evans 142 W.R.Endean c D.J.Insole 345. M.C.C. v Western Province, Newlands, Capetown, February 22, 23, 25, 26 (Match drawn) lbw b J.E.Pothecary 22 335 17 5 40 1 J.R.Siedle c B.Taylor 257 did not bat - 186-8d 8 3 11 1 G.A.S.Innes b 176-8 346. ENGLAND v SOUTH AFRICA, Port Elizabeth, March 1, 2, 4, 5 (South Africa won by 58 runs) b P.S.Heine 41 110 25 12 23 2 A.J.Pithey c T.G.Evans 164 T.L.Goddard lbw K.J.Funston b c R.A.McLean b H.J.Tayfield 18 130 24.7 5 39 2 R.A.McLean b 134 N.A.T.Adcock b SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches 5 10 0 259 80 25.90 - 1 3 Other matches 11 15 2 444 162 34.15 2 - 7 Tour 16 25 2 703 162 30.56 2 1 10 Career 346 534 108 14647 205 34.38 16 74 211 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Test matches 142.3 43 232 19 5-20 12.21 1 - 59.94 20.36 Other matches 112.2 33 229 10 4-22 22.90 - - 89.80 25.50 Tour 254.5 76 461 29 5-20 15.89 1 - 70.24 22.63 Career (6-ball) 9089.4 2101 } 25943 1069 10-90 24.26 58 7 55.85 43.45 (8-ball) 645.6 142 1957 In 1957 West Indies were the tourists and Bailey played in four of the Tests against them, missing the game at Headingley through injury. With May, Graveney, Cowdrey and Peter Richardson all scoring two centuries in the series there was no need for any of the Bailey “rescue acts” and he in fact only scored 5 runs in four innings. His bowling substantially won the Second Test at Lord’s where he took 7-44 in West Indies first innings and 4-54 in the second dismissing Clyde Walcott and Everton Weekes in both knocks. He also took nine wickets against the tourists for Essex at Ilford, dismissing Weekes twice in this match as well. England won a surprisingly one-sided series 3-0. In the Championship Bailey again topped the Essex batting and bowling averages scoring 1094 runs at an average of 49.72 and taking 70 wickets at the remarkably low cost of 14.57. He made 102 against Glamorgan at Ilford and 132 against Worcestershire at Leyton but his most remarkable performance came in the match with Hampshire at Romford where he scored 59 and 71 not out and took fourteen wickets at a cost of 81 runs. On five other occasions he took five wickets or more in an innings. Overall he achieved his fourth Double scoring 1322 runs at an average of 38.88 and taking 104 wickets at 17.02. He finished in twelfth place in tha national batting averages and in thirteenth place in the bowling. It was another outstanding season from England’s premier all-rounder. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 347. Essex v Cambridge University, Fenner’s, May 4, 5, 6 (Match drawn) c G.Goonesena b O.S.Wheatley 66 238-9d 22.1 5 57 1 R.M.James lbw 276-9d did not bat - 121-2 16 3 31 1 G.W.Cook lbw 174-6d 44