Warwickshire v Hampshire
Warwickshire v Hampshire at Edgbaston in June 1922 was a rather interesting game.
Hampshire won by 155 runs.
Warwickshire 223 all out.
Hampshire 15 all out.
Hampshire 521 all out
Warwickshire 158 all out.
The Bears' first innings total was well below par in good batting conditions but then Hampshire collapsed in freak fashion. Five of their top seven - and eight batsmen in all - bagged ducks and captain Philip Mead, at number four, was left high and dry on six not out. If they had not profited from four byes it would have been really embarrassing. Harry Howell took 4.5-2-7-6 and the Hon Freddy Calthorpe 4-3-4-4.
When Hampshire were 186 for 6 in their second innings, it looked all over but George Brown scored 172, number ten Walter Livsey thrashed 110 not out and even number eleven Stuart Boyes chipped in with 30. Howell 63-10-156-3. Calthorpe 33-2-97-2.
Chasing 313, an ageing Bears unit then showed the effects of 164 overs in the field. No-one reached 50 and eight of them failed to reach 20.
For Warwickshire, The Reverend Ernest Waddy, who in 1905/06 had headed the inter-state batting averages in Australia with an average of 70.20 for New South Wales and was to die in 1958 at Evesham where he was vicar of The Littletons, had a quiet match. He did not bowl, took no catches and bagged a pair.
But, perhaps, in the light of the torment experienced at the hands of Somerset's batsmen last weekend, it wouldn't do Warwickshire any harm to get a vicar in the team against Hampshire tomorrow.
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Walter Livsey (who, interestingly, was listed on his birth certificate as Livesey, but presumably found the first "e" something of an impediment) was, as well as Hampshire's wicketkeeper, butler to his county captain, Hon Lionel Tennyson, later Lord Tennyson. Between them they averted a single-figure calamity for Hampshire in the first innings, as Tennyson - arriving at 0 for 3 - perhaps rashly thrashed his first ball to the boundary, and was caught at cover from his second. Livsey obscured Tiger Smith's view to earn the four byes, a prelude to his second-innings hundred.
George Brown was famous for taking bouncers on his chest and shouting "YAH!" back to the bowler. He should not be confused with the jolly 1960s Foreign Secretary George Brown, who changed his surname from Brown to George-Brown in 1970 when he was awarded a peerage, so he would be known as Baron George-Brown rather than just Baron Brown.
The things you learn on here - I thought George Brown was better known as "Boozy Brown".
I think as well as having a vicar in the team we should bring in the Dalai Lama, an Ayotollah or two, a Rabbi, an Imam, a Mullah, a Bishop a Pastor, a Cantor, a Holy Father, not to mention a guru. Just to cover all bases you see.
It never fails to amaze me. I don't know where all this knowledge comes from, but I really enjoy reading it.
Is the Pope available tomorrow?
And don't forget Edgbaston 1962 when Hampshire were saved from defeat by A.Wassell batting two hours for nine not out.