By Brian Sanderson
I recently purchased the above scorecard in respect
of a match at Scarborough on 25 July 1951 against
Scotland.At the same date England were playing South
Africa at Headingley.The opening pair for England was
Hutton and Yorkshire opener Lowson who was a late
replaced for Ikin who was injured. Other Yorkshire players
were Watson and Brennan.In England only innings of the
match Hutton scored his 102nd hundred of his career whilst
Lowson scored 58 on his Test debut.Looking at the newspaper
archives it reported that the first child in the queue was Adrian
Grayson who is the father of Paul , the present Yorkshire
batting coach. Adrian is also well now known in Yorkshire
cricket.
Back to Scarborough Billy Sutcliffe, the son of Herbert was
the captain of Yorkshire for the first time. Scotland batted first
but Bob Appleyard had a puncture so arrived late.A Peter Race
acted as substitute fielder for a while.It must have been a great
occasion for him.The crowd was about 3000 to see Trueman take
five wickets and Appleyard three in a Scottish total of 121.
Halliday.They put on a stand of 228 of which Halliday scored 90.
Vic Wilson went on to score 223 runs which included two 6's
and twenty-five 4's.With the help of Sucliffe Yorkshire declared on
372 for one wicket.Also in the side was Doug Padgett playing
his second first class match.
wickets for fifty two run. The top Scottish batsman was Rev James
Aitchison who Presbyterian Minister and scored 74 in a total of
272.
On the third day Padgett was able to bat but was out for 8 runs in
a winning total of 23 for 3.
Meanwhile back at Headingley South Africa scored 538 with Rowan
scoring 236 and England scored 505.There was rain on Tuesday
which robbed Rowan opportunity of av remarkable feat of a
double and single century in the same match.
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