The Cricket Statistician No 195

34 Gordon Barker: Essex (32, 27) and Southend United (5) Mike Barnard: Hampshire (21, 29) and Portsmouth (17) Don Bates: Sussex (26, 14) and Brighton and Hove Albion (21) Bob Etheridge: Gloucestershire (13, 0) and Bristol City (31) Denis Foreman: Sussex (20, 4) and Brighton and Hove Albion (37) Ken Grieves: Lancashire (30, 27) and Stockport County (39) Bernard Harrison: Hampshire (1, 2) and Crystal Palace (33) Stuart Leary: Kent (24, 25) and Charlton Athletic (41) Barrie Meyer: Gloucestershire (7, 32) and Bristol Rovers (24) Ron Nicholls: Gloucestershire (30, 31) and Bristol Rovers (35) Malcolm Scott: Northamptonshire (0, 2) and Newcastle United (1). Scott eventually played 183 matches for Northants. Both matches in 1958 were for Combined Services. David Smith: Gloucestershire (31, 32) and Bristol City (1) Mickey Stewart: Surrey (34, 34) and Charlton Athletic (1) Ray Swallow: Derbyshire (1, 0) and Arsenal (7). Swallow eventually played 37 matches for Derbyshire. His one match in 1957 was for MCC. Ken Taylor: Yorkshire (17, 25) and Huddersfield Town (40) Ron Tindall: Surrey (0, 1) and Chelsea (36) Derek Ufton: Kent (12, 2) and Charlton Athletic (28) The football club listed is the one for whom the player named appeared in 1957/58. Of course some first-class cricketers appearing in 1957 or 1958 appeared in the Football League in other seasons but not 1957/58 (for example, notably internationals Arthur Milton and Willie Watson who had retired by then). And conversely there were nine footballers who appeared in the 1957/58 season and in cricket seasons other than 1957 or 1958. For example, as well as Fred Lucas already mentioned above, Arsenal’s Jim Standen played the first match of a long League career in December 1957, and made his first-class debut, playing for Worcestershire, in 1959. No doubt contractual arrangements prevented availability clashes and none of those listed above managed to play in a first-class cricket match and Football League match on the same day, as Jack Durston had done for Middlesex and Brentford in August 1920 and Chris Balderstone would do for Leicestershire and Doncaster Rovers in September 1975. Chelsea’s Ron Tindall had played at home for Chelsea against Manchester City on Wednesday 28 August and in a two-day match the following day at The Oval for Surrey 2 nd XI against Gloucestershire 2 nd XI, although he didn’t then play for Chelsea again until 11 September. The Chelsea manager at the time, famous England footballer Ted Drake, had played sixteen Championship matches for Hampshire before the War and so he probably had some sympathy for Tindall’s dual loyalties. Three football teams fairly regularly fielded sides during the season that included two current first-class cricketers: Brighton and Hove Albion (Bates and Foreman), Bristol Rovers (Meyer and Nicholls) and Charlton Athletic (Leary and Ufton). If the aforementioned Lucas