Famous Cricketers No 65 - Len Hutton

4 E.R.T.Holmes, N.W.D.Yardley 3 N.F Armstrong, F.R.Brown, J.G.Langridge, F.R.Santall. C.Washbrook (in three consecutive “Roses” matches) 2 H.T.Bartlett, P.Cranmer, L.B.Fishlock, R.J.Gregory, J.L.Hopwood, N.Oldfield, C.H.Palmer 1 T.E.Bailey, H.T.Barling, R.Benaud, D.C.S.Compton, M.C.Cowdrey, J.F.Crapp, H.E.Dollery, W.J.Edrich, G.Geary, H.H.I.H.Gibbons, K.J.Grieves, J.Iddon, J.T.Ikin, F.G.Mann, A.Melville, J.H.Parks, E.Paynter, C.G.Pepper, W.Place, A.Sandham, R.T.Simpson, J.B.Stollmeyer, A.Wharton, F.E.Woolley, T.S.Worthington His best performances were as follows: 4/25 and 6/76 Yorkshire v Leicestershire Leicester 1937 5/45 Yorkshire v Surrey Bramall Lane 1938 5/58 Yorkshire v Worcestershire Bradford 1939 5/70 Yorkshire v Warwickshire Scarborough 1939 (these were in consecutive games) 4/49 Yorkshire v Lancashire Old Trafford 1936 4/25 and 4/52 Yorkshire v MCC Scarborough 1936 4/38 Yorkshire v Oxford University The Parks 1938 4/40 Yorkshire v Hampshire Bramall Lane 1939 4/40 Yorkshire v Leicestershire Leicester 1946 3/3 Yorkshire v Oxford University The Parks 1947 4/20 Players v Gentlemen Scarborough 1951 His best season with the ball was in 1939 with figures of 220.7 (8 ball) – 38 – 822 – 44 – 18.68 when he finished eighth in the first-class bowling averages of all those who took over twenty wickets. With his last ball in first-class cricket he bowled Richie Benaud in the fifth Test at Sydney in 1955. Incidentally, I believe it is correct to say that when he was dismissed at Hove on September 1, 1939, he was the last batsman to be out in first-class cricket before the entry of England into the Second World War. Acknowledgments I wish to thank Mr.Tom Graveney for providing me with a foreword for this book and also for telling me so many of his recollections of Len Hutton as a player, colleague and captain. Douglas Verity was also very helpful in discussing features of Len Hutton’s career and for allowing me to peruse several letters written to him by Sir Leonard in his later years with particular reference to the gratitude he felt towards Douglas’ father, the great Hedley. The author would like to thank Kit Bartlett, Stephen Eley and Peter Griffiths for their painstaking attention to detail in order to guarantee the accuracy of the details in this book - a true labour of love. In addition, Philip Bailey supplied information that the author could not glean elsewhere. I would have been lost without the enormous secretarial assistance given to me by my wife, Jen, and my thanks go to her. Bibliography Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack – many editions Cricket is My Life – Len Hutton Fifty Years in Cricket – Len Hutton Len Hutton – Gerald Howat 73