Famous Cricketers No 95 - P.A.Perrin

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct County Championship 20 39 4 1426 189 40.74 5 5 6 Other match 1 2 0 42 35 21.00 - - 2 Season 21 41 4 1468 189 39.67 5 5 8 Career 117 204 19 6942 205 37.52 20 31 47 1902 Essex slipped further back in this cold, wet season, finishing thirteenth out of fifteen in the Championship and winning only one of their twelve fixtures at Leyton. The club’s bowling was less able than most to benefit from the difficult pitches which prevailed. Wisden used the word ‘dreary’ of the club’s performance. The Essex annual report said that ‘taken as a whole, the club’s batting was inconsistent and not up to the standard of recent years.’ Still batting regularly at three, Perrin scored more runs for Essex, 1,062 at 34.25, than any other batsman, but the Almanack said again that he ‘had not added to his reputation’, although he finished sixteenth in the national averages. His ‘superb’ off-driving was the finest feature of his game. Although he passed fifty in eight innings out of 38, Perrin scored only one century, 121, off Leicestershire at Aylestone Road, ‘hitting freely in front of the wicket.’ Against Middlesex at Leyton, he opened the batting in both innings for the first time, with F.L.Fane, when H.A.Carpenter was absent through injury. At the Canterbury festival in August, in a rain-interrupted game drifting to a draw, he opened the bowling in the Kent second innings, for the first time in a first-class match. W.G.Grace persuaded Perrin and his ‘twin’ to play for his London County side at Crystal Palace, and he got to bowl there too. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 118. Essex v Surrey, Kennington Oval, May 5, 6, 7 (Match drawn) [3] c E.G.Hayes b T.W.Hayward 20 124 6.4 2 14 1 R.Abel b 335-7d [3] not out 42 † 91-2 119. Essex v Yorkshire, Leyton, May (8), (9), 10 (Match drawn) [3] c J.T. Brown b S.Haigh 12 89 171-3 120. Essex v Australians, Leyton, May 15, 16, 17 (Match drawn) [3] b W.W.Armstrong 63† 178 249-8d [3] not out 1 13-2 121. Essex v Kent, Leyton, May 19, 20 (Essex won by an innings and 126 runs) [3] b W.M.Bradley 70† 277 59 92 122. Essex v Nottinghamshire, Trent Bridge, May (22), 23, 24 (Match drawn) [3] b T.G.Wass 1 60 187-6d 1 [3] b J.R.Gunn 0 202-5 123. Essex v Surrey, Leyton, May 26, 27, 28 (Surrey won by 128 runs) [3] c F.Stedman b W.H.Lockwood 1 138 4 0 21 0 262 [3] c E.G.Hayes b W.Brockwell 8 173 - - - - 177 124. Essex v Warwickshire, Leyton, June 5, (6), 7 (Match drawn) [3] b S.Santall 40† 90 121 [3] not out 17 29-2 125. London County v Leicestershire, Crystal Palace, June 9, 10, 11 (Match drawn) [3] c W.W.Odell b J.H.King 11 327 - - - - 280 1 [1] not out 46† 86-0 2 1 13 0 247-3d 126. Essex v Middlesex, Lord’s, June (16), (17), 18 (Match drawn) [3] not out 38† 64 154 [3] c G.W.Beldam b J.T.Hearne 2 69-3 23-1d 127. Essex v Lancashire, Leyton, June 19, (20), 21 (Match drawn) [3] c A.Ward b S.F.Barnes 86† 333-9d - - - - 160 4 2 6 0 128-3 31