#test bowling average

George Lohmann — Surrey's All-Rounder Emerges, 1884-1888

George Alfred Lohmann was the Surrey amateur-turned-professional who became, by 1888, the deadliest English bowler of his generation. He played his first county match in 1884, took 142 first-class wickets and 571 runs in 1885, and made his Test debut in 1886. He went on to take Test wickets at 10.75 — the lowest career average of any Test bowler in history with 50+ wickets — and to record a strike rate (34.1) that no one has ever bettered. By the end of the 1880s he was as central to England's bowling attack as Spofforth had been to Australia's.