#1900s

6 incidents tagged

Monty Noble — Captain, All-Rounder, the 'Master of the Spin-Swerve', 1898-1909

Australia, England

1909-08-31

Montague 'Monty' Noble played 42 Tests for Australia between 1898 and 1909, captaining 15 of them and winning eight. A medium-paced bowler whose 'spin-swerve' (an early form of off-cutting in-swinger) and a top-order batsman, he scored 1,997 Test runs at 30.25 and took 121 Test wickets at 25. He led Australia to the Ashes win at home in 1907-08 and the away win in 1909.

#monty-noble#australia#all-rounder

⭐Mild

Schofield Haigh — Yorkshire's Third Bowler in the Hirst-Rhodes Era

Yorkshire, England

1908-08-31

Schofield Haigh, the Yorkshire medium-pacer with a sharp off-break, took 158 wickets at 12.51 in the 1902 county season — a strike rate matched in modern English cricket only by Colin Blythe (1912) and Harold Larwood (1931). Often the third bowler behind Hirst and Rhodes in published accounts, Haigh played 11 Tests for England and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1901.

#schofield-haigh#yorkshire#england

⭐Moderate

K.S. Ranjitsinhji's Sussex Years and Departure for Nawanagar, 1900-1907

Sussex, England

1907-03-07

Through the early 1900s K.S. Ranjitsinhji captained Sussex (1899-1903), played 15 Tests for England, and continued to redefine batting through the leg glance. In March 1907 he succeeded as Jam Sahib of Nawanagar and effectively withdrew from full-time first-class cricket. He returned briefly in 1908 and 1912 but his Sussex career was over by the time he became a ruler.

#ranjitsinhji#sussex#england

⭐Mild

J.T. Tyldesley — Lancashire's Senior Batter of the Edwardian Era

Lancashire, England

1907-08-30

John Thomas Tyldesley — known throughout Lancashire as 'J.T.' to distinguish him from his younger brother Ernest — was the leading professional batter of Edwardian England. Between 1900 and 1909 he scored over 19,000 first-class runs at an average above 40 and represented England in 31 Tests. He combined a back-foot strength against fast bowling with a hooking technique that contemporaries — including Trumper — singled out for praise.

#jt-tyldesley#lancashire#old-trafford

⭐Moderate

The Bombay Triangular and Quadrangular — Communal Cricket in India, 1900s

Parsis, Hindus, Europeans, Muslims

1907-09-15

The annual cricket tournament played in Bombay was the principal organised cricket of pre-independence India. It began in the 1890s as a Parsi-vs-European fixture, became a Triangular when the Hindus joined in 1907, and was extended into a Quadrangular when a Muslim side was admitted. Through the 1900s it was the most-watched cricket in the subcontinent and the platform on which a generation of Indian cricketers earned the right to be considered for Test cricket once India was admitted to the ICC.

#bombay-quadrangular#india#parsis

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Bobby Abel — Surrey's 'Guv'nor' Through the 1900s

Surrey, England

1904-08-31

Bobby Abel — the small, severely short-sighted Surrey opener known throughout the south of England as 'the Guv'nor' — was the most prolific professional batter of the late 1890s and continued as Surrey's senior batter through the first four seasons of the new century. He had carried his bat for 357 not out against Somerset at the Oval in 1899, then the highest first-class score on an English ground, and remained Surrey's leading run-getter until cataracts forced his retirement in 1904.

#bobby-abel#surrey#the-guvnor