North v South

By Brian Sanderson

One of the recent scorecards I purchased was a North v South

match at Scarborough starting on the 6 September. I wrote 

recently of another North  v South Match at Harrogate at the 

end of August.

Hutton and Washbrook opened the innings for the North. 

Hutton was second in  the Yorkshire averages with 71.31

and had recently scored his 11th century of the season.

However on this Saturday he was caught by Evans off

Alec Bedser for 17 However .Washbrook went on to score

129 out of 233 in three and a half hours. Yardley , the North;s

captain , scored 126 hitting three sixes and fifteen fours .In

this season he scored 1906 runs at average of 44.32 which

was his career high for runs scored in a season.

North's total was 397 and the photograph above is of the North

side.

The South side include some players I have not heard of

Opening bowler was Anthony Mallett who only played 33

matches for Kent from 1946-53.

Denys Robert Wilcox, Essex off break bowler who was 

coming to end of his career He had played in Egypt before

the War .See recent blog about cricket in Egypt during the

Second World War.

When the South batted on the Monday in sunshine Laurie

Fishlock , the Surrey opening batsman, scored 120 hitting

two sixes and fifteen fours in two hours and forty minutes.

He was a noted soccer player for Crystal Palace ,Millwall,

Aldershot, Southampton and Gillingham and also obtained

an amateur cap for England.

The next century maker was Martin Donnelly , The New 

Zealand test player who scored 113 which included fourteen

fours in three hours and five minutes.

Next century maker was Freddie Brown with a unbeaten 104

including two sixes and sixteen fours in sixty eight minutes.

He rose to a tremendous crescendo with  4,6,4,6,4,1 off the 

last over by Wardle.  Hi figures for the innings were 

52-8-236-3 which must be his worse bowling figures in his 

career. His last wicket was Wilcox stumped by Yardley as 

Brennan was ill.. This was his only stumping in his career.

By this time the score was 570 for 6 declared. 

Hutton in the second innings scored 92 out of a total of 

174 for two. There was a total of 1141 runs scored and 

only 18 batsmen dismissed.

In the 1947 season Denis Compton broke the 41 years old 

world record aggregate record 3518 in a season , set up 

by Tom Haywood. He did it in 49 innings and scored 17 

centuries.