Lives in Cricket No 45 - Brief Candles 2

39 Never a run being dismissed ‘hit wicket’ - and he too was an opening batsman. Openers with a pair in their only match C.R.Arnold (Tasmania) D.J.Morris (Rhodesia) J.Bulbeck (Hampshire) - Nethercliffe (Hampshire) E.A.Burrill (Natal) F.I.Nicholl (Cambridge University) J.Desai (Gujarat) Taimur Hasan (Dera Ismail Khan) W.P.Finch (Hawke’s Bay) A.J.S.Vincent (W Province) - Goules (E.H.Budd’s XI) J.W.Watson (Tasmania) S.Jordan (Eastern Province) V.S.Xulu (KwaZulu-Natal) J.F.Kitson (Oxford University) Zaeem Qadri (Lahore City) All the above opened in the first innings; in some cases, second-innings batting orders have not been confirmed. Players in italics in this and the following table all played before 1850. Seven cricketers have been dismissed lbw for a duck in both innings of their only match. None have been stumped in both innings, but nine batsmen have completed their pairs by being stumped in their second innings. Among these is one Gilbert Wooley who, playing for Gloucestershire v Kent at Gravesend in 1920, was dismissed stumped off the bowling of his near namesake Frank Woolley. LBW in both innings Stumped in 2nd innings D.I.Campbell (Griqualand West) H.Atkinson (Yorkshire) Iftekhar Ahmed (Dhaka Division) L.Linaker (Yorkshire) W.Knox (Scotland) Makhmoor-e-Ahmed (Multan) Mohammad Rafiq (Multan) W.L.Pakenham (Gentlemen) Shahidul Bashar (Barisal Division) A.P.Powell (Middlesex) Tanzeel-ur-Rehman (Rawalpindi) R.H.Shortt (Ireland) N.P.Thomas (Cambridge University) J.P.Stafford (Surrey) J.Vincent (Sheffield) G.G.Wooley (Gloucestershire) The entire first-class careers of two ‘only-match pairs’ cricketers were each contained in just a single day. First was Herbert Hollings (Oxford University v MCC, Oxford, 24 May 1877). He was one of five debutants in the Oxford side, four of whom made pairs as the University was dismissed for 12 and 35, to lose by an innings and 77 runs. The other four debutants played between 17 and 65 first-class matches in their careers, but Hollings - who batted in the lower middle-order, and was not asked to bowl - never played at first-class level again. The other was Jackie Barnes , whose match (for Ireland v New Zealanders, Dublin 1937) was completed on its scheduled first day, 11 September, with the tourists victorious by eight wickets. Barnes batted at number ten both times. He opened the bowling in the New Zealanders’ first innings (6-3-7- 0), but was not called upon in their second knock. George Fernley made a ‘king pair’ in his only first-class match, for Hawke’s