Famous Cricketers No 95 - P.A.Perrin

7. Essex v Warwickshire, Leyton, June 29, 30 (Essex won by six wickets) [3] c A.F.A.Lilley b S.Santall 41 249 168 1 [3] b S.Santall 1 40-4 118 8. Gentlemen v Players, Kennington Oval, July 6, 7, 8 (Gentlemen won by one wicket) [8] c and b J.T.Hearne 17 303 248 [4] b T.Richardson 32 137-9 191 9. Essex v Yorkshire, Leyton, July 13, 14, 15 (Essex won by four wickets) [3] b S.Haigh 50 205 203 1 [3] c D.Hunter b S.Haigh 0 134-6 133 1 10. Essex v Warwickshire, Edgbaston, July 16, 17, 18 (Match drawn) [3] b H.J.Pallett 139† 395 1 0 1 0 347 [3] run out 14 242 - - - - 236-2 11. Essex v Hampshire, Leyton, July 20, 21 (Hampshire won by eight wickets) [3] run out 0 160 188 [3] b H.Baldwin 1 87 61-2 1 12. Essex v Derbyshire, Leyton, July 23, 24, 25 (Match drawn) [3] c J.J.Hulme b G.Porter 17 292 356 [3] b G.A.Davidson 73 179-3 264-5d 1 13. Essex v Leicestershire, Grace Road, Leicester, August 3, 4, 5 (Match drawn) [3] c J.Powers b A.D.Pougher 15 216 181 [3] run out 85 280-7d 200-7 1 14. Essex v Surrey, Leyton, August 6, 7 (Essex won by an innings and 119 runs) [3] b T.Richardson 7 327 126 2 82 15. Essex v Derbyshire, Derby, August 17, 18, 19 (Essex won by 201 runs) [3] lbw b G.A.Davidson 2 227 155 1 [3] c L.G.Wright b J.J.Hulme 0 285 156 16. Essex v Hampshire, Southampton, August 24, 25, 26 (Hampshire won by an innings and 113 runs) [3] c R.A.Bennett b E.R.Bradford 3 98 296 [3] c E.R.Bradford b H.Baldwin 25 85 17. South of England XI v Yorkshire, Scarborough, August (27), 28, 29 (Yorkshire won by five wickets) [4] not out 36 161 135 [4] lbw b R.Peel 3 76 103-5 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct County Championship 12 23 1 655 139 29.77 1 5 11 Other Essex matches 2 3 0 64 35 21.33 - - - Other matches 3 6 1 89 36* 17.80 - - - Season 17 32 2 808 139 26.93 1 5 11 Bowling O M R W BB Ave County Championship (5b) 3 0 9 0 - - 1897 This was a remarkable season for Essex, when they were transformed from a club few counties wanted to play into a side headlined, perhaps with some disbelief, in The Leytonstone Express and Independent , ‘At the Top at Last’. The county defeated Lancashire at Leyton in the first week of August, before a crowd of 15,000 on the last day of the match. They were thus top of the Championship table and needed to beat Surrey in the next fixture to take the title in only their third season in the competition. They lost by ten wickets inside two days. The local paper explained: ‘No doubt about it, man for man, they were opposing a stronger side.’ Essex finished the season in third place, a return not bettered until 1978. The large home attendances greatly improved the club’s 21