Famous Cricketers No 59 - Aubrey Faulkner

Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Test matches 119.4 34 272 14 4/26 19.42 - - Other match 35 6 108 6 3/46 18.00 - - Season 154.4 40 380 20 4/26 19.00 - - Career 167.1 42 421 22 4/26 19.13 - - 1906/07 Faulkner’s developing skills were exhibited at the Eleventh Currie Cup Tournament, held in Johannesburg, where he made the highest number of runs (219 at 43.80), hit the highest score (95) and took the most wickets (23 at 14.60) for the victorious Transvaal team. Six teams took part, and Transvaal won all five of their matches (one being a walk-over when Griqualand West were unable to field a team). Faulkner started with 6/62 and 3/33 against Natal, helping his side to a seven-wicket win. After a quiet game against Orange Free State, he excelled against old rivals Western Province, taking 2/56 and 4/58 and making 95 in a convincing win by an innings and 39 runs. Coming in with his side in trouble he held the innings together, and the eventual total of 366 was in no small way due to his effort. He followed with 75 against Eastern Province, whose attack was headed by Ernie Vogler (5/125), who had taken 6/12 and 10/26 against Griqualand West a week before and was to capture 6/34 and 8/24 against Orange Free State in the following game. It came as no surprise at the close of the Tournament that Faulkner was selected in the South African team to tour the United Kingdom in the forthcoming northern summer. At the end of the season a team of Transvaal cricketers, captained by Ivor Difford, toured the Cape Province, playing three matches against Border and one against Western Province. Faulkner took the opportunity to register his maiden first-class century in the second match, scoring 119 against Border in King William’s Town. Another highlight came his way in the match with Western Province when he took 6/37, including a hat-trick in the first innings – five wickets falling to him in two overs as the home side crashed from 64/2 to 68/7. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 10. Transvaal v Natal, Wanderers, Johannesburg, December 26, 27, 28 (Transvaal won by seven wickets) run out 28 108 28.1 7 62 6 A.W.Nourse lbw 198 J.J.Bisset b B.C.Cooley b T.E.Etlinger c O.W.Tomlinson C.D.Robinson c R.O.Schwarz J.Budgen b run out 8 181-3 14.3 7 33 3 A.W.Nourse c T. Campbell 90 H.F.Dowling lbw C.E.Forder c T.Campbell 11. Transvaal v Orange Free State, Wanderers (No.3 Ground), Johannesburg, December 29 (Transvaal won by ten wickets) c H.V.Baumgartner b A.G.Richardson 13 180 16 5 32 3 L.Clarke b 118 1 A.G.Richardson lbw E.B.Weir lbw not out 0 4-0 1 0 4 0 64 12. Transvaal v Western Province, Wanderers, Johannesburg, January 1, 2, 3 (Transvaal won by innings and 39 runs) b J.J.Kotze 95 366 24 10 56 2 S.E.Horwood c R.O.Schwarz 141 1 F.D Conry c J.H.Sinclair 21.1 1 58 4 S.E.Horwood c O.W.Tomlinson 186 S.J.Snooke b J.G.Whitehead hit wkt J.J.Kotze b 13. Transvaal v Eastern Province, Wanderers (No.4 Ground), Johannesburg, January 4, 5 (Transvaal won by innings and 116 runs) b A.E.E.Vogler 75 407 16 3 59 4 R.R.Dower c E.A.Griffiths 146 F.J.Hippert b M.A.Bell lbw F.T.Bayes c E.A.Halliwell 9 2 32 1 F.J.Hippert lbw 145 9