Famous Cricketers No 95 - P.A.Perrin

220. Essex v Nottinghamshire, Leyton, August 23, 25, 26 (Essex won by 71 runs) [5] c J.R.Gunn b G.T.Branston 48 390 295 [3] c A.W.Hallam b T.G.Wass 98† 184 208 221. Essex v Sussex, Hastings, August 27, 28, 29 (Match drawn) [3] c P.H.Latham b G.R.Cox 150† 299 3 1 10 1 R.R.Relf b 315 [3] c R.R.Relf b G.R.Cox 60 363-4d 2 1 2 0 204-4 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Gentlemen v Players 1 2 0 10 8 5.00 - - - County Championship 21 39 3 1767 150 49.08 4 11 9 Other Essex match 1 2 0 116 106 58.00 1 - 1 Season 23 43 3 1893 150 47.32 5 11 10 Career 221 392 40 14027 343* 39.84 38 62 100 Bowling O M R W BB Ave County Championship (6b) 15 4 48 1 1-10 48.00 Career (6b) 118.5 22 } 513 10 2-31 51.30 (5b) 33 5 1907 Now led by C.P.McGahey, Essex again finished the Championship in seventh place, in a wet season which was dominated by Nottinghamshire. The standard of Essex bowling remained below their batting, with perhaps the former dragged down by poor fielding. Perrin missed the first four Essex matches of the season because of lumbago. He appeared in nineteen of the County’s twenty–two Championship games, reaching a thousand runs in the club’s last match, against Northamptonshire, when he was reported as ‘not batting with his accustomed freedom’. For Essex he passed fifty in ten innings out of 32, but converted only two into centuries, both in June. References to Perrin’s batting in Press reports tend to suggest he had now passed his best: Wisden for example referred to him merely as ‘retaining his old powers.’ Even so, he finished the season tenth in the national averages. At the end of the season, he played in a Festival match at Hastings, with Wisden being disparaging about his 117, the top score in the innings, which it thought ‘reckless’. The Times said of this effort that ‘in endeavouring to force a good position he made a number of bad strokes.’ This was the match where in the second innings, after Perrin had made a duck, G.L.Jessop famously scored 191 in ninety minutes, including sixteen hits over the boundary. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 222. Essex v Lancashire, Old Trafford, May 27, 28, 29 (Essex won by four wickets) [3] lbw b J.Hallows 2 118 97 [3] lbw b F.Harry 69† 181-6 201 223. Essex v Middlesex, Lord’s, June 3, 4, 5 (Match drawn) [3] lbw b F.A.Tarrant 16 164 278 [3] c C.C.Page b A.E.Trott 116† 288 6-0 224. Essex v Nottinghamshire, Leyton, June 6, 7 (Nottinghamshire won by seven runs) [3] b T.G.Wass 9 59 100 2 [3] b J.R.Gunn 4 110 76 225. Essex v Derbyshire, Leyton, June 13, 14 (Essex won by an innings and 90 runs) [3] b R.B.Rickman 52† 331 175 1 66 226. Essex v Nottinghamshire, Trent Bridge, June 17, 18, 19 (Match drawn) [3] st T.W.Oates b J.Iremonger 105† 335 364 [3] st T.W.Oates b J.R.Gunn 11 190 49-1 40