#bobby peel

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Bobby Peel Sacked by Yorkshire — Drunk on the Field, 1897

Yorkshire v Middlesex

1897-08-18

On 18 August 1897, Yorkshire's left-arm spinner Bobby Peel — at that point England's most successful slow bowler and a 100-Test-wicket man — turned up drunk on the third day of a Championship match against Middlesex at Bramall Lane. Lord Hawke ordered him from the field, and the Yorkshire committee suspended him for the rest of the season. Peel never played for Yorkshire again. The decision opened the door for the 19-year-old Wilfred Rhodes, who would take 4,184 first-class wickets across the next 33 years.

#bobby-peel#1897#lord-hawke

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Sydney 1894 — England Win After Following On for the First Time

Australia v England

1894-12-20

On 20 December 1894, with Australia 113 for 2 chasing 177 and the match seemingly won, overnight rain and a hot Sydney sun turned the SCG into a sticky. Bobby Peel — pulled from a hangover by his captain Andrew Stoddart — took 6 for 67 and England won by 10 runs. It was the first time in Test history a side had won after following on, after Australia's first-innings 586 had piled up against an England 325. Wisden called it 'probably the most sensational match ever played either in Australia or in England.'

#ashes#1894#sydney

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Yorkshire's First Official Title — 1893 County Championship

Yorkshire CCC

1893-08-31

Yorkshire won their first official County Championship in 1893, three years after the formal competition began. Captained by Lord Hawke — though the 33-year-old amateur played only eleven of the matches — they won twelve fixtures and lost just one, beginning an era that would produce eight titles in 16 years. The 1893 side was the first product of Hawke's drive for professional discipline; the players included Bobby Peel, George Hirst and Stanley Jackson.

#yorkshire#1893#lord-hawke

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Australia 42 — Lohmann and Peel on a Sticky, Sydney 1888

Australia v England

1888-02-10

On a Sydney pitch reduced to a glue-pot by rain, George Lohmann and Bobby Peel bowled Australia out for 42 in the second innings of the only Test of the 1887-88 tour — Lohmann 5 for 17, Peel 5 for 18, the pair unchanged through the innings. The match also produced Charlie Turner's 7/43 at the other end of the same wet stage and a 126-run England win.

#lohmann#bobby-peel#1888

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Bobby Peel — Yorkshire's Slow Left-Armer Emerges, 1882-1888

Yorkshire / England

1888-08-31

Bobby Peel of Yorkshire was the second great left-arm spinner of his county after Edmund Peate, and quickly the better of the two. He made his first-class debut in 1882, became Yorkshire's first-choice slow left-armer when Peate was sacked for drunkenness in 1887, took 100 wickets a season for the next decade and was named one of the first six Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1889. By 1888 he was already England's frontline spinner, sharing 27-wicket days with Lohmann at Lord's against Australia.

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