Famous Cricketers No 95 - P.A.Perrin

472. Essex v Northamptonshire, Southend-on-Sea, August 18, 20, 21 (Essex won by 263 runs) [5] c B.W.Bellamy b J.V.Murdin 1 181 126 [5] c A.E.Thomas b J.V.Murdin 14 253-7d 45 1 473. Essex v Somerset, Taunton, August 22, 23, 24 (Match drawn) [5] c R.C.Robertson-Glasgow b J.J.Bridges 0 153 189 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct County Championship 24 42 7 1053 122 30.08 2 5 17 Other Essex match 1 2 1 82 70 82.00 - 1 - Season 25 44 8 1135 122 31.52 2 6 17 Career 473 819 80 27597 343* 37.34 65 139 265 1924 This was the third wettest summer of the twentieth century and the poor attendances it brought precipitated a further financial crisis for the Essex club. Winning only two of their 28 county fixtures and still with Douglas as captain, the county finished fifteenth of seventeen in the Championship in a season which Wisden described as ‘a doleful experience’. The club had the second highest county bowling average. Perrin played regularly, but reached fifty only four times in thirty nine attempts, and returned single figure scores in eighteen innings. The Almanack said that ‘soft turf handicapped the veteran ... and the other amateurs’: professionals were apparently expected to be weatherproof. When, during a drier spell in late June, he scored 87 off Middlesex, described as ‘almost worthy of his best days’, Perrin had gone thirteen matches without reaching fifty, the longest period in his career without achieving that particular measure of success. Even so, Essex lost that match by an innings. It would not be going too far to say that in this season, Perrin with a personal batting average of 18.48 in the Championship, compared with 20.97 for the side as a whole in Championship matches, was not worth his place in the Essex side. Playing badly in a cold, wet summer for a side which had little chance of winning, even against the weaker opponents, would surely have been a dispiriting business. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 474. Essex v Leicestershire, Leyton, May 14, 15, 16 (Leicestershire won by seven wickets) [5] c and b G.Geary 0 227 178 [6] lbw b W.E.Astill 2 86 136-3 475. Essex v Somerset, Ilford, May 21, 22, 23 (Somerset won by 371 runs) [5] not out 23 118 262 1 [6] c C.A.Winter b J.C.White 6 69 296 476. Essex v Sussex, Ilford, May 24, 26, 27 (Sussex won by three wickets) [5] c A.C.Watson b M.W.Tate 8 137 114 [5] c A.F.Wensley b M.W.Tate 11 152 176-7 1 477. Essex v Nottinghamshire, Leyton, May 28, 29, 30 (Match drawn) [5] c and b T.L.Richmond 20 321 188 did not bat - 121-3 326 1 478. Essex v Middlesex, Lord’s, June (4), (5), 6 (Match drawn) [5] b F.J.Durston 1 70-6 132 479. Essex v Worcestershire, Leyton, June 7, 9, 10 (Essex won by five wickets) [5] b C.F.Root 4 267 225 1 [6] c and b C.F.Root 12 86-5 127 1 63