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He kicked down the stumps

By Brian Halford on Apr 22, 10 02:43 PM

Warwickshire v Hampshire at Edgbaston, 1922.

Warwickshire 223 and 158
Hampshire 15 and 521.
Hampshire won by 155 runs.

This was a rather interesting game. Having chosen to bowl first, Hampshire would have probably accepted a position 98 for 3, having dismissed Warwickshire, at the close of the first day if offered it by a Chinese bookmaker called Sang Kipper Ho at start of play.
They were indeed 98 for 3 at stumps. The snag was it was in their second innings.
After the Bears totalled 223, well under par on a decent batting track, Hampshire's first innings lasted just 8.5 overs as Harry Howell took 6 for 7 and Freddie Calthorpe 4 for 4. The visitors' total would have looked really poor without the benefit of four byes.
When Hampshire's second innings declined to 274 for eight, only 66 ahead, their defeat appeared a formality. But George Brown struck 172 and number ten Walter Livsey (a wicket-keeper who once allowed only three byes in a total of 554 against Oxford University) added 110 not out, his maiden century, to set Warwickshire a target of 314.
John Newman (5 for 53) and Alec Kennedy (4 for 47) then dismantled the Bears' second innings to execute an extraordinary victory.

Ernest Waddy, an Australian later to be ordained, bagged a pair for Warwickshire.

Two months later, Newman, a popular and usually even-tempered man, was involved in an uncharacteristic incident in the last game of the season at Trent Bridge when he refused to bowl until the Nottinghamshire supporters stopped barracking. Hampshire captain Lionel Tennyson sent Newman from the field and the aggrieved bowler kicked down the stumps before he departed. He later became a first-class umpire.

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