Famous Cricketers No 95 - P.A.Perrin

drive off a delivery fromW.Storer which had ‘slipped’ and was bouncing almost harmlessly down the pitch towards him. Perrin took his first wicket in first class cricket at Bradford in June. Brought on by H.G.P.Owen as eighth bowler, in his first over he bowled Ted Wainwright for 25 in Yorkshire’s only innings. Perrin described the delivery with evident pleasure in an interview with W.A.Bettesworth reported in Cricket magazine in May 1900. In the return match with Gloucestershire at Clifton College, Perrin was one of three wicket-keepers used by Essex in the home county’s only innings, when they were without T.M.Russell, the regular keeper. This appears to have been the only time he kept wicket in a first-class match. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 35. Essex v Surrey, Leyton, May 16, 17, 18 (Essex won by six wickets) [3] c W.Brockwell b W.H.Lockwood 5 289 188 [3] c H.Baldwin b T.Richardson 14 100-4 200 36. Essex v Sussex, Leyton, May 19, (20), (21) (Match drawn) [3] not out 13 114-2 - 37. Essex v Oxford University, The Parks, Oxford, May 23, 24 (Essex won by seven wickets) [3] c R.E.Foster b E.C.Lee 38 245 125 1 [3] lbw b F.H.E.Cunliffe 7 41-3 160 38. Essex v Leicestershire, Leyton, May 30, (31), June (1) (Match drawn) [3] c and b F.Geeson 15 228 45-1 39. Essex v Yorkshire, Leyton, June 2, 3, 4 (Yorkshire won by three wickets) [3] c D.Denton b F.S.Jackson 4 78 118 [3] st D.Hunter b W.Rhodes 20 168 129-7 40. Essex v Warwickshire, Leyton, June 9, 10, 11 (Essex won by an innings and 34 runs) [3] b T.Forrester 11 356 124 198 41.Essex v Derbyshire, Leyton, June 20, 21 (Essex won by 129 runs) [3] b G.A.Davidson 17 191 134 1 [3] b G.A.Davidson 20 192 120 1 42. Essex v Hampshire, Southampton, June 23, (24), 25 (Essex won by 126 runs) [3] b W.Andrew 68† 252 133 [3] c E.G.Wynyard b W.Andrew 11 107-3d 100 43. Essex v Yorkshire, Bradford, June (27), 28, 29 (Yorkshire won by an innings and 38 runs) [3] b E.Wainwright 0 64 2 0 4 1 E.Wainwright b 278 [3] c G.H.Hirst b W.Rhodes 14 176 44. Essex v Derbyshire, Derby, July 4, 5, 6 (Essex won by an innings and 172 runs) [3] b W.Storer 104 497-5d 166 1 159 45. Essex v Gloucestershire, Leyton, July 7, 8, 9 (Gloucestershire won by one wicket) [3] c and b W.G.Grace 7 128 231 [3] c W.G.Grace b E.C.Wright 81† 250 151-9 46. Essex v Lancashire, Old Trafford, July 14, 15, 16 (Essex won by four wickets) [3] b A.W.Mold 7 169 9 2 28 0 254 [3] b W.R.Cuttell 61 339-6 - - - - 250 47. Essex v Kent, Leyton, July 21, 22, 23 (Match drawn) [3] not out 106† 334 2 1 4 0 280 - - - - 120-1 48. Essex v Hampshire, Leyton, July 25, 26, 27 (Essex won by nine wickets) [3] b A.J.L.Hill 21 425 296 did not bat - 14-1 139 49. Essex v Surrey, Kennington Oval, July 28, 29, 30 (Surrey won by five wickets) [3] c H.Wood b T.Richardson 0 147 314 [3] b W.H.Lockwood 76 290 124-5 24