A GREAT FAST BOWLER
Recent mention of the Manchester Test of 1896, when Trumble and Kelly, after an hour's dogged batting, scored the 25 runs that were wanted when they came together, brings to mind the wonderful performance in that match of Tom Richardson, the Surrey and England fast bowler. What would the modern fast bowler, carefully nursed and kept on for only j half a dozen overs at a time, think If j he were asked to do what Richardson did in this game? In the whole match he sent down 553 balls for 244 runs and 13 wickets (seven for 168 and six for 76), and he bowled unchanged during the whole of the second innings, keeping an end going for three hours, never asking to be relieved, never losing pace or pitch, and never sending down a loose baiil __'.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 50, 27 August 1938, Page 23
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142A GREAT FAST BOWLER Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 50, 27 August 1938, Page 23
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