#edwardian cricket

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Frank Foster's Emergence — Warwickshire's Future Captain, 1908-1909

Warwickshire

1909-07-01

Frank Foster, the left-arm fast-medium bowler and middle-order batter from Birmingham, made his Warwickshire first-class debut in 1908. By the close of 1909 he was establishing himself as one of the most promising young all-rounders in England — the foundation for the career that would, two years later, deliver Warwickshire its first county championship and, on the 1911-12 Ashes tour, the new-ball partnership with S.F. Barnes that won the Ashes.

#frank-foster#warwickshire#edgbaston

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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

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Joe Darling's Australian Captaincy — 1899 to 1905

Australia

1905-08-15

Joe Darling led Australia in three separate Ashes series — 1899, 1902 and 1905 — and on the 1901-02 and 1902 tours commanded the Australian touring sides at the height of the country's Edwardian cricket. A left-handed batter from South Australia, he combined a measured tactical sense with the durability of the bush cricketer and was the first Australian captain to win an Ashes series in England since 1888.

#joe-darling#australia#captaincy

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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

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Pelham 'Plum' Warner — Founder of the MCC Tour Tradition, 1900s

MCC, Middlesex, England

1903-12-11

Pelham 'Plum' Warner, the Trinidad-born Oxford-educated Middlesex amateur, captained the first MCC team to tour Australia under the club's name in 1903-04 and won that series 3-2. The tour established the convention that English overseas tours were thereafter MCC enterprises rather than private commercial ventures, an institutional change in international cricket whose effects lasted until 1977.

#plum-warner#mcc#middlesex