Famous Cricketers No 95 - P.A.Perrin

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct County Championship 21 37 2 1048 81 29.94 - 9 13 Other Essex matches 2 4 1 75 28 25.00 - - - Season 23 41 3 1123 81 29.55 - 9 13 Career 423 735 67 25161 343* 37.66 59 127 231 Bowling O M R W BB Ave County Championship (6b) 12.2 2 52 2 2-26 26.00 Career (6b) 177.2 36 } 728 16 3-13 45.50 (5b) 33 5 1922 Largely because of their good batting results, Essex finished eighth in the Championship. In those days this was accounted a good return for the county for its efforts. Before the season started, the club sold the freehold of its Leyton headquarters to the Army Sports Board. By becoming tenants at the ground the club had reduced its costs, but the heavy reliance on amateurs remained: the side had just three regular professionals. Against Middlesex at Leyton in August, even with Perrin absent, Essex still fielded nine amateurs. In terms of run aggregate, Perrin, aged 46 during the season, remained the leading amateur batsman, although his total was well behind C.A.G Russell, the leading professional. Until late July Perrin usually batted at four, but he then moved to fifth to accommodate the rather more dashing style of C.T.Ashton from Cambridge University. Wisden said that Perrin ‘could look back on his season’s work with extreme satisfaction’, adding that ‘again and again he played with a masterly ease that made all bowling look easy.’ The Cricketer thought Perrin ‘a wonderful player considering his age.’ He reached a thousand runs before the end of July, and finished the season just above thirtieth in the national batting averages. He converted four of his ten fifties into centuries, little different from his overall career pattern. Eleven of his thirty-two dismissals were leg before wicket, suggesting a certain immobility in front of the stumps. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 424. Essex v Combined Services, Leyton, May 10, 11, 12 (Essex won by five wickets) [4] b T.O.Jameson 23 295 215 [4] lbw b T.O.Jameson 12 202-5 278 425. Essex v Somerset, Leyton, May 13, 15, 16 (Match drawn) [4] b J.J.Bridges 57† 213 404 [5] lbw b E.Robson 16 331 86-3 1 426. Essex v Nottinghamshire, Leyton, May (17), 18, 19 (Nottinghamshire won by eight wickets) [4] st T.W.Oates b T.L.Richmond 71† 154 250-9d [4] b T.L.Richmond 32 158 63-2 1 427. Essex v Middlesex, Lord’s, May 24, 25, 26 (Match drawn) [4] b A.R.Tanner 72 343 260 [4] c E.Martin b N.E.Haig 1 198 259-8 1 428. Essex v Derbyshire, Leyton, May 27, 29, 30 (Essex won by nine wickets) [capt] [4] st H.Elliott b A.Morton 15 390 214 1 did not bat - 88-1 261 1 429. Essex v Northamptonshire, Northampton, May 31, June 1, 2 (Match drawn) [4] c A.E.Thomas b N.E.Wright 114 541-7d 230 1 260-4 430. Essex v Worcestershire, Leyton, June 3, 5 (Essex won by an innings and 297 runs) [4] c J.B.Higgins b A.T.Burlton 37 521 49 175 59