Controversies in 1907

8 incidents documented

South Africa's Googly Quartet — Schwarz, Vogler, Faulkner, White, England 1907

South Africa, England

1907-07-01

South Africa's first major tour of England, in 1907, featured four wrist-spin bowlers — Reggie Schwarz, Bert Vogler, Aubrey Faulkner and Gordon White — all bowling the googly that Schwarz had learned from Bernard Bosanquet. Faulkner's 6 for 17 in 11 overs at Headingley reduced England to 76, and the tour established the googly as a global Test weapon.

#south-africa#england#1907

😂Mild

Macartney Debuts and Earns 'Governor General' — Sydney 1907

Australia, England

1907-12-13

Charlie Macartney, picked as a left-arm spinner with handy lower-order batting, made his Test debut at Sydney in December 1907. Kent's KL Hutchings, observing Macartney's confident demeanour at the wicket, dubbed him 'The Governor-General' — a name meant ironically (Macartney was barely 21) but one that stuck for the rest of his career.

#charlie-macartney#australia#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

⭐Serious

Colin Blythe — 15 for 99 at Headingley v South Africa, 1907

England, South Africa

1907-07-30

On a rain-affected pitch at Headingley, the Kent left-arm spinner Colin Blythe took 8 for 59 and 7 for 40 — match figures of 15 for 99 — to bowl England to a 53-run win over South Africa in the second Test of 1907. It was Blythe's only Test five-wicket haul in a Test won by England, and the high point of his Test career.

#colin-blythe#kent#england

⭐Serious

Albert Trott — Pavilion Six, Two Hat-tricks in an Innings, and a Sad End

Middlesex, Somerset

1907-05-22

Albert Trott is the only batsman to clear the Lord's pavilion (off Monty Noble, 31 July 1899) and one of only two men to take two hat-tricks in a single first-class innings — both in his benefit match v Somerset at Lord's on 22 May 1907. Penniless and ill, he killed himself on 30 July 1914, the day before the 15th anniversary of his Lord's six.

#albert-trott#lords#middlesex

⭐Moderate

South Africa's First Test Tour of England — 1907 and the Googly Attack

South Africa, England

1907-07-15

South Africa's 1907 tour of England was their fourth visit but the first to include Test matches. England won the three-Test series 1-0 (with two draws), but the South African googly quartet — Reggie Schwarz, Bert Vogler, Aubrey Faulkner and Gordon White — astonished English cricket. Across the whole tour South Africa won 21 of 31 matches.

#south-africa#england#1907

⭐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