Famous Cricketers No 68 - Fred Tate

191. Sussex v Hampshire, Portsmouth, August 28, 29, 30 (Sussex won by an innings and 16 runs) did not bat - 348-6d 34 14 57 4 C.Robson b 197 V.A.Barton c K.S.Ranjitsinhji E.G.Wynyard lbw E.C.Lee b 24.4 7 60 6 E.G.Wynyard b 135 A.S.Webb c C.B.Fry F.A.G.Leveson-Gower c H.R.Butt C.Heseltine c G.Brann E.C.Lee b H.Baldwin c C.H.G.Bland 192. Sussex v Kent, Hove, August 31, September 1, 2 (Kent won by nine wickets) b C.Blythe 9 110 39.1 10 87 5 A.Hearne c C.B.Fry 230 1 T.T.N.Perkins c H.R.Butt J.R.Mason c G.Brann W.Rashleigh c P.H.Latham H.C.Stewart c G.Brann c J.R.Mason b W.M.Bradley 6 167 4 1 14 0 48-1 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 50 Ct County Championship 20 27 6 434 59* 20.66 3 17 Other Sussex matches 4 5 - 35 21 7.00 - 1 Other matches 1 2 1 41 23* 41.00 - 2 Season 25 34 7 510 59* 18.88 3 20 Career 192 312 99 1940 59* 9.10 3 129 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m County Championship 952.1 344 2026 93 6/39 21.78 8 1 Other Sussex matches 185 55 483 26 6/72 18.57 4 2 Other matches 26 4 89 2 2/89 44.50 - - Season (5-ball) 1163.1 403 2598 121 6/39 21.47 12 3 Career (4-ball) 388.1 168 } 16721 732 7/17 22.84 56 11 (5-ball) 7513.1 2570 1900 Now arguably the strongest batting side in the country – between them in all matches Ranjitsinhji and Fry scored 5,390 runs – Sussex finished fourth and were hard to beat. That they had equal difficulty bowling sides out is shown by their record in the Championship of four wins, two defeats and eighteen draws. Tate worked harder than ever bowling 1143.5 of the newly introduced six-ball overs and exceeding his personal best with 141 wickets but apart from Bland who, possibly worried over doubts about his action, was expensive, there was little support. Combined, the pair accounted for 52% of the overs bowled for Sussex in the Championship. Although Tate had a large share in all four Sussex wins, some of his most notable efforts were in drawn games – 7-66 in Somerset’s first innings at Taunton, match figures of 10-137 v Middlesex at Hove. On the last day at Eastbourne, Essex set out to score 69 in the 55 minutes remaining, Tate (3-13) and Bland (2-8) confined them to 31-5. Tate’s best figures of 7-30 were not sufficient to avoid defeat at Oxford. Possibly in consideration of the amount of bowling he had to do, Tate reverted to his customary position of ten or eleven in the batting order. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 193. Sussex v MCC, Lord’s, May 10, 11 (Sussex won by seven wickets) b J.T.Hearne 6 217 7 3 18 0 121 did not bat - 54-3 30