Famous Cricketers No 68 - Fred Tate

24. Sussex v Kent, Gravesend, July 8, 9, 10 (Kent won by an innings and 95 runs) lbw b W.S.Wright 0 143 20 3 64 1 C.J.M.Fox c T.Mayes 410 1 c A.Hearne b W.S.Wright 0 172 25. Sussex v Surrey, Hove, July 15, 16, 17 (Surrey won by three wickets) b G.A.Lohmann 0 180 33 10 69 2 R.Abel b 181 W.W.Read b not out 0 81 11 2 23 1 J.Shuter c W.A.Humphreys 82-7 26. Sussex v Surrey, Kennington Oval, July 29, 30 (Surrey won by an innings and 84 runs) not out 6 111 32.2 12 76 2 G.A.Lohmann b 326 1 J.Beaumont c W.Quaife b G.A.Lohmann 0 131 27. Sussex v Gloucestershire, Ashley Down, Bristol, August 5, 6 (Gloucestershire won by an innings and 40 runs) not out 0 79 8 1 23 0 201 not out 3 82 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 50 Ct County Championship 9 16 7 29 9 3.22 - 6 Other Sussex matches 2 3 1 16 16* 8.00 - 1 Season 11 19 8 45 16* 4.09 - 7 Career 27 48 15 170 26 5.15 - 13 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m County Championship 258.2 80 516 22 4/32 23.45 - - Other Sussex matches 43.1 15 93 2 1/20 46.50 - - Season (5-ball) 301.3 95 609 24 4/32 25.37 - - Career (4-ball) 388.1 168 } 1225 54 5/1 22.68 1 - (5-ball) 301.3 95 1891 Seemingly better for a year off from the first-class game, Tate on his return topped his county’s bowling averages and proved himself the most effective bowler in the side, sometimes deadly on slow wickets. Bowling almost twice as many overs as anyone else, his eight hauls of five wickets or more included 7-17 (12-61 in the match) at Clifton when, bowling unchanged with C.A.Smith, the pair dismissed Gloucestershire for 37. W.G.Grace (9 & 6) fell to Tate in both innings. Against Oxford University his 7-33 (10-100 in the match) included a final spell of 7-7 in 9.3 overs. In the return match with Kent at Hove, the visitors, needing 139 in the last innings, were bowled out for 54, Tate (6-23) and J.B Hide (3-20) bowling unchanged. Kent might have done better had not C.J.M.Fox, like many before and since, succumbed to the pleasures of Brighton. 0* at the interval, he left the ground to lunch with friends and returned too late to continue his innings. In a non first-class fixture against Hampshire at Hove Tate’s second innings figures were 18-8-24-9. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 28. Sussex v MCC, Lord’s, May 7, 8 (Sussex won by an innings and 53 runs) not out 13 268 9 4 10 1 G.Davenport b 88 20 5 45 3 A.N.Hornby c A.W.Hilton 127 G.Davenport lbw H.Richardson b 29. Sussex v Lancashire, Old Trafford, May (28), (29), 30 (Match drawn) b J.Briggs 0 45 37 21 52 3 F.H.Sugg c W.H.Dudney 133 A.Ward c W.H.Dudney G.R.Baker c A.W.Hilton did not bat - 48-6 10