In a posting I made last week I included the above photo of the Gentlemen's XI who took on the Players at Lord's in 1949 and promised to list the names in my next posting. Here we go:
Back row left to right: Trevor Bailey, Reg Simpson, Hafeez Kardar,Clive van Ryneveld, Hubert Doggart, John Dewes
Seated left to right: Bill Edrich, Freddie Brown, George Mann (capt), Norman Yardley, Billy Griffith.
The match, played over three days ended in a win for The Players by four wickets. The Gentlemen, looking for what would have been only their third win since 1914, were bowled out for 105 in their first knock with Eric Hollies taking five wickets. Players replied with 234, top scorer with 65 was 18 year old Brian Close, and although the amateurs fared better second time around with van Ryneveld leading the way with 64, the professionals got home by four wickets with Jenkins and Evans knocking off the last seventy needed off just forty balls. Evans had a particularly good match with runs in both innings and seven victims behind the stumps. Denis Compton captained the players and the others were Hutton, Langridge, Robertson, Graveney, Close, Jenkins, Evans, Perks, Hollies and Jackson.
To finish with an apology for in the same posting when talking about fixture complications for leagues in my area I wrote that the York and District Premier League were 'a club short following the merger of Hull and Hull Zingari' but it would have been more accurate if I had said Division instead of League. At an EGM last week the league's clubs agreed by a large majority to redraw the 2018 fixtures. The merged club, Hull and Zingari will play in the Premier Division and their merger has saved Bolton Percy and Beverley Town II from relegation.
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