Famous Cricketers No 82 - H.E. 'Tom' Dollery

393. Warwickshire v Lancashire, Old Trafford, July 7, 8, 9 (Lancashire won by eight wickets) * b C.S.Smith 5 95 165 2 c and b R.Tattersall 5 117 49-2 394. Warwickshire v Worcestershire, Edgbaston, July 10, 12, 13 (Worcestershire won by three wickets) * b R.O.Jenkins 22 301-9d 232 not out 37 179-4d 250-7 395. Warwickshire v Kent, Edgbaston, July 14, 15, 16 (Match drawn) * c D.G.Ufton b F.Ridgway 19 190-9d 266 1 did not bat - 42-1 114-5d 396. Warwickshire v Hampshire, Bournemouth, July (17), 19, 20 (Match drawn) * c E.D.R.Eagar b J.R.Gray 24 179 298-9d 1 did not bat - 60-2 397. Warwickshire v Somerset, Edgbaston, July 21, 22, 23 (Match drawn) * b J.Lawrence 7 220 197 not out 3 198-4d 130-8 1 398. Warwickshire v Lancashire, Edgbaston, July 24, (26), 27 (Match drawn) * c A.Wilson b M.J.Hilton 0 273 63-0 399. Warwickshire v Derbyshire, Edgbaston, July 31, August 2, (3) (Match drawn) * c G.O.Dawkes b H.L.Jackson 3 106 158 1 did not bat - 41-1 400. Warwickshire v Pakistanis, Edgbaston, August 4, 5, (6) (Match drawn) * lbw b Shuja-ud-Din 19 170 165 c Imtiaz Ahmed b Zulfiqar Ahmed 10 91-6 401. Warwickshire v Middlesex, Lord’s, August 11, 12, (13) (Match drawn) * c L.H.Compton b A.E.Moss 4 61 126 91-5 1 402. Warwickshire v Nottinghamshire, Trent Bridge, August 14, 16, 17 (Nottinghamshire won by an innings and 16 runs) * c R.J.Giles b G.Goonesena 28 135 396-9d c B.Dooland b G.Goonesena 0 245 403. Warwickshire v Leicestershire, Edgbaston, August 18, 19, (20) (Match drawn) * 24-1 404. Warwickshire v Northamptonshire, Northampton, August 21, (23), (24) (Match drawn) * 56-2 405. Warwickshire v Glamorgan, Edgbaston, August 25, 26, 27 (Warwickshire won by 56 runs) * c H.G.Davies b W.E.Jones 22 163 133 1 lbw b W.Wooller 5 149 123 406. Warwickshire v Gloucestershire, Bristol, August 28, 30, 31 (Match drawn) * c P.Rochford b B.D.Wells 10 211 419-6d c T.W.Graveney b F.P.McHugh 62 362 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St County Championship 28 42 7 1236 142 35.31 3 4 16 - Other Warwicks matches 2 2 0 29 19 14.50 - - 4 - Season 30 44 7 1265 142 34.18 3 4 20 - Career 406 665 64 22630 212 37.65 46 117 273 14 1955 Tom Dollery’s last season was one of personal triumph. Far from going out quietly, he was very nearly the first batsman in the country to reach 1,000 first-class runs, being beaten to the mark by Doug Insole of Essex by only a matter of hours. For three months he was in the form of a twenty-one year old, not a veteran of forty-one. Because of a poor August, when he only managed two fifties as his eyesight started to deteriorate, he was pipped for first place in the Warwickshire averages by Ray Hitchcock. It was Hitchcock who told me that Dollery’s eyesight was on the wane; they were batting together at Hinckley in a double-century partnership against Leicestershire when the skipper came 54