Famous Cricketers No 95 - P.A.Perrin

71. Essex v Gloucestershire, Leyton, August 3, 4, 5 (Gloucestershire won by an innings and 3 runs) [3] c W.S.A.Brown b C.L.Townsend 37 220 3 0 11 1 W.S.A.Brown c T.M.Russell 441 2 [3] c C.O.H.Sewell b A.J.Paish 23 218 72. Essex v Leicestershire, Grace Road, Leicester, August 7, 8, 9 (Essex won by an innings and 223 runs) [3] c J.P.Whiteside b G.H.S.Fowke 132 673 - - - - 194 4 1 7 0 256 73. Essex v Lancashire, Leyton, August 10, 11 (Lancashire won by eight wickets) [3] b A.W.Mold 0 212 248 [3] c and b A.W.Mold 31 146 111-2 74. Essex v Sussex, Hove, August 17, 18, 19 (Match drawn) [3] c and b E.H.Killick 47 352 - - - - 227 [3] c F.W.Tate b C.B.Fry 33 98-2 3 1 15 0 307-5d 75. Essex v Gloucestershire, Clifton College, Bristol, August 24, 25, 26 (Gloucestershire won by an innings and 117 runs) [3] c and b C.L.Townsend 24 234 2 0 11 0 436 [3] st J.H.Board b A.J.Paish 0 85 76. Essex v Warwickshire, Leyton, August 31, September 1, 2 (Match drawn) [3] b W.G.Quaife 68 424-5d 1 0 3 0 247 - - - - 70-3 1 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct County Championship 20 34 4 1486 196 49.53 6 5 8 Other Essex match 1 2 0 5 5 2.50 - - - Season 21 36 4 1491 196 46.59 6 5 8 Career 76 131 13 4336 196 36.74 11 22 32 Bowling O M R W BB Ave County Championship (5b) 13 2 47 1 1-11 47.00 Career (5b) 33 5 109 2 1-4 54.50 1900 At the beginning of the season, at the Essex Annual General Meeting, Perrin was presented with a desk set, now in his grandson’s possession, recording his batting achievements of the previous year, in particular his six centuries. Perrin expressed the wish that he would beat last year’s record. The club was optimistic about its season too, but after its end recognised that it had been ‘disappointing’, with the side finishing the season tenth of fifteen in the Championship. The club’s batting and bowling resources were both simply ‘average’. Wisden ’s conclusion on Perrin’s 1900 season was that he had not ‘added to his reputation.’ Although he was not the dominant Essex batsmen he had been in the previous season, he passed fifty on eight occasions in thirty-two innings and extended half of these to centuries. These included 205, his first double century in first-class cricket, off a strong Kent side at Leyton in late July. During this innings he added 323 in 255 minutes for the third wicket with C.P.McGahey. This created a new county record and was to be his largest partnership with his ‘twin’: the press took the view that they were too cautious at the start. Perrin, though, was eventually caught in the deep by S.H.Day. Wisden said he drove ‘splendidly’ and cut ‘to good purpose’. Earlier in the season, against Yorkshire at Leyton, he collected his first ‘pair’. Aged twenty three at the start of the campaign, and in his fifth season in first class cricket, Perrin had now taken over responsibility for the family’s public house at Tottenham. This may explain his absence from the second innings against Hampshire at Southampton in July, and from the following match at Leyton against Surrey, the first Essex match he had missed since he started in 1896. He also missed Walter Mead’s benefit match at Leyton against Middlesex at the end of August, after scoring centuries in the two preceding matches, but this seems to have been arranged 27