Lives in Cricket No 15 - Michael Falcon

First-Class Cricket: Five Wickets or More in an Innings (20) Analysis For Opponent Venue Season 20.4-6-50-5 Cambridge University Indians² Fenner’s 1911 16-5-40-5 Cambridge University Sussex² Hove 1911 15.3-6-25-5 Cambridge University MCC² Lord’s 1911 16-5-37-6 Free Foresters Cambridge Univ² Fenner’s 1912 10.1-4-16-5 MCC Yorkshire¹ Scarborough 1912 18-5-47-6 L.Robinson’s XI South Africans¹ Old Buckenham 1912 15-3-55-5 L.Robinson’s XI Cambridge Univ¹ Old Buckenham 1913 14.2-2-58-6 Gentlemen Players¹ The Oval 1913 18-4-41-6 Free Foresters Cambridge Univ¹ Fenner’s 1914 22.4-9-70-7 Free Foresters Cambridge Univ² Fenner’s 1914 25-5-67-5 P.F.Warner’s XI Oxford University¹ The Parks 1919 14-3-41-6 Gentlemen of England AIF¹ Lord’s 1919 28-4-88-5 Free Foresters Oxford University¹ The Parks 1920 15-4-62-6 Free Foresters Cambridge Univ¹ Fenner’s 1920 26.5-2-157-5 Gentlemen Players¹ The Oval 1920 18.4-2-67-6 England XI Australians¹ Eastbourne 1921 31-5-76-6 Free Foresters Cambridge Univ¹ Fenner’s 1923 17-1-78-7 Gentlemen Players¹ The Oval 1924 34-6-103-5 Minor Counties South Africans² Lakenham 1924 15.2-2-65-5 Free Foresters Cambridge Univ¹ Fenner’s 1925 Note: Falcon took ten or more wickets in a match once, for Free Foresters v Cambridge University at Fenner’s in 1914. His returns were 18-4-41-6 and 22.4-9-70-7, giving match totals of 40.4-13-111-13. The four tables below give details of Falcon’s performances in Minor Counties cricket for Norfolk. The matches covered include all the Minor Counties Championship games in which he made appearances, plus certain other matches where Norfolk fielded a full first eleven in two-day fixtures against high-quality opposition. The opponents in these matches include MCC, first-class touring sides, Free Foresters, Suffolk, Lionel Robinson’s XI, Eton Ramblers and Harrow Wanderers. Minor Counties Cricket: Batting and Fielding M I NO R HS Ave 100 50 Ct Pos 1906 1 2 0 5 5 2.50 - - - n/a 1907 4 7 1 458 112 76.33 3 1 2 1 1908 6 10 0 147 54 14.70 - 1 1 10 1910 9 13 0 315 56 24.23 - 3 11 6 1911 9 18 2 631 114 39.44 2 4 3 3 1912 9 16 3 538 143 41.38 1 3 4 1 1913 7 11 0 410 155 37.27 1 1 1 1 1914 7 11 1 332 93 33.20 - 1 2 3 1919 1 2 0 38 33 19.00 - - - n/a 1920 6 9 1 480 205 60.00 2 1 7 1 1921 9 14 1 401 111 30.85 2 1 5 1 1922 14 22 1 728 113 34.67 1 4 12 3 1923 11 20 2 678 98 37.67 - 6 5 2 1924 8 12 2 580 148 58.00 2 2 6 1 Some Statistics 139