Famous Cricketers No 68 - Fred Tate

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 50 Ct County Championship 24 26 7 132 19 6.94 - 20 Other Sussex matches 5 6 1 32 15 6.40 - 1 Other matches 1 1 0 1 1 1.00 - - Season 30 33 8 165 19 6.60 - 21 Career 222 345 107 2105 59* 8.84 3 150 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m County Championship 903.2 239 2475 114 7/66 21.71 10 2 Other Sussex matches 211.3 75 475 24 7/30 19.79 1 1 Other matches 29 4 87 3 2/36 29.00 - - Season (6-ball) 1143.5 318 3037 141 7/30 21.53 11 3 Career (4-ball) 388.1 168 } (5-ball) 7513.1 2570 19758 873 7/17 22.63 67 14 (6-ball) 1143.5 318 1901 Tate had another excellent season finishing first in the Sussex and eighth in the national averages with 142 wickets at 19.50 and achieving his first and only hat-trick. Wisden , never over-generous with praise, acknowledged him as “one of the best medium-pacers in the country”. Even better perhaps, his benefit match against Yorkshire at Hove in August, supplemented by collections, raised £1,051.18s, more than double the norm for a Southern county. Sussex were fourth again and while batting was still their main strength, the number of drawn county games was reduced to thirteen. Bland suffered a serious loss of form, but Tate now had the support of Joe Vine’s leg breaks (95 wickets) and the medium pace of the fast-improving Albert Relf (65 wickets). Once again Kent saw the best of Tate – 14-119 at Tonbridge, 9-176 at Hove. There were 12-wicket match returns against Somerset at Hove and Hampshire at Portsmouth as well as 11-88 when Cambridge University came to Hove, 9-128 at Leyton and 8-88 at Leicester. One of his few failures was in his benefit match against Yorkshire at Hove where he finished wicketless. Still firmly anchored in the lower reaches of the batting order, Tate played one important innings. At Hove, facing a Nottinghamshire score of 642-7, Tate joined Vine at 221-8. Together they added 138 of which Tate’s share was a career-best 84. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 223. Sussex v MCC, Lord’s, May 13, 14 (MCC won by 230 runs) b J.T.Hearne 1 101 23 11 39 3 H.B.Hayman c C.L.A.Smith 141 B.J.T.Bosanquet b W.Mead lbw b A.E.Trott 11 117 13 0 46 0 307 224. Sussex v Essex, Leyton, May 16, 17, 18 (Essex won by 171 runs) c H.I.Young b W.Reeves 4 247 23 3 70 7 P.A.Perrin b 214 A.J.Turner b A.P.Lucas b C.J.Kortright b T.M.Russell c K.O.Goldie W.Reeves b H.I.Young b c W.Mead b W.Reeves 3 210 33 8 58 2 C.J.Kortright c C.L.A.Smith 414 H.I.Young c C.H.G.Bland 225. Sussex v Worcestershire, Hove, May 20, 21, 22 (Sussex won by an innings and 137 runs) c T.Straw b R.D.Burrows 42 528 7 2 20 0 187 1 - - - - 204 1 226. Sussex v Gloucestershire, Hove, May 27, 28, 29 (Gloucestershire won by 228 runs) c J.H.Board b A.J.Paish 1 274 15 3 56 3 C.O.H.Sewell c E.H.Killick 349 4 H.Wrathall st H.R.Butt T.Langdon c C.B.Fry c G.L.Jessop b A.J.Paish 0 98 12 3 39 0 251 34