1951 English cricket season
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The 1951 English cricket season produced a surprise championship win for Warwickshire, their first for forty years and only the second in their history. It was noteworthy for the period in being achieved under a professional captain, Tom Dollery
. It was a comfortable victory as Warwickshire won 16 matches while second-placed Yorkshire won four less.
Tom Dollery
Tom Dollery was an English cricketer, who played for England and Warwickshire.-Life and career:Born Horace Edgar Dollery in Reading, Berkshire, and playing Minor counties cricket for Berkshire at the age of 15, Dollery joined Warwickshire in 1934, and was a mainstay of the team until retirement in...
. It was a comfortable victory as Warwickshire won 16 matches while second-placed Yorkshire won four less.
Honours
- County Championship - Warwickshire
- Minor Counties Championship - Kent II
- Wisden - Bob AppleyardBob AppleyardBob Appleyard is a former Yorkshire and England cricketer.He was one of the best English bowlers of the 1950s, a decade which saw England develop its strongest bowling attack of the twentieth century...
, Tom DolleryTom DolleryTom Dollery was an English cricketer, who played for England and Warwickshire.-Life and career:Born Horace Edgar Dollery in Reading, Berkshire, and playing Minor counties cricket for Berkshire at the age of 15, Dollery joined Warwickshire in 1934, and was a mainstay of the team until retirement in...
, Jim LakerJim LakerJames "Jim" Charles Laker was a cricketer who played for England in the 1950s, known for "Laker's match" in 1956 at Old Trafford, when he took nineteen wickets in England's victory against Australia...
, Peter May, Eric RowanEric RowanEric Alfred Burchell Rowan, born on 20 July 1909 and died at Johannesburg on 30 April 1993, was a cricketer who played for Transvaal, Eastern Province and South Africa....
Leading batsmen
1951 English cricket season – leading batsmen by average | ||||||
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Name | Innings | Runs | Highest | Average | 100s | |
Peter May | 43 | 2339 | 178* | 68.79 | 9 | |
Denis Compton Denis Compton Denis Charles Scott Compton CBE was an English cricketer who played in 78 Test matches, and a footballer... |
40 | 2193 | 172 | 64.50 | 8 | |
John Dewes John Dewes John Dewes is a former English cricketer, who played for Cambridge University and Middlesex, and was chosen for five Tests between 1948 and 1950.-Life and career:... |
10 | 515 | 116* | 64.37 | 2 | |
Fred Jakeman | 41 | 1989 | 258* | 56.82 | 6 | |
Jack Robertson Jack Robertson Jack Robertson was an English cricketer, who played county cricket for Middlesex, and in eleven Tests for England.... |
56 | 2917 | 201* | 56.09 | 7 |
1951 English cricket season – leading batsmen by aggregate | ||||||
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Name | Innings | Runs | Highest | Average | 100s | |
Jack Robertson Jack Robertson Jack Robertson was an English cricketer, who played county cricket for Middlesex, and in eleven Tests for England.... |
56 | 2917 | 201* | 56.09 | 7 | |
Peter May | 43 | 2339 | 178* | 68.79 | 9 | |
Tom Graveney Tom Graveney Thomas William Graveney in Riding Mill, Northumberland, is a former English cricketer and was the President of the Marylebone Cricket Club for 2004/5. He went to Bristol Grammar School... |
50 | 2291 | 201 | 48.74 | 8 | |
Denis Compton Denis Compton Denis Charles Scott Compton CBE was an English cricketer who played in 78 Test matches, and a footballer... |
40 | 2193 | 172 | 64.50 | 8 | |
Len Hutton Len Hutton Sir Leonard "Len" Hutton was an English Test cricketer, who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England in the years around the Second World War as an opening batsman. He was described by Wisden Cricketer's Almanack as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket... |
47 | 2145 | 194* | 55.00 | 7 | |
Don Kenyon Don Kenyon Donald Kenyon was an English cricketer, who played in eight Tests for England from 1951 to 1955. He captained Worcestershire between 1959 and 1967.... |
59 | 2145 | 145 | 40.47 | 6 |
Leading bowlers
1951 English cricket season – leading bowlers by average | ||||||
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Name | Balls | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Average | |
Bob Appleyard Bob Appleyard Bob Appleyard is a former Yorkshire and England cricketer.He was one of the best English bowlers of the 1950s, a decade which saw England develop its strongest bowling attack of the twentieth century... |
7880 | 391 | 2829 | 200 | 14.14 | |
Brian Statham Brian Statham John Brian "George" Statham, CBE was one of the leading English fast bowlers in 20th-century English cricket. Initially a bowler of a brisk fast-medium pace, Statham was able to remodel his action to generate enough speed to become genuinely fast... |
4286 | 178 | 1466 | 97 | 15.11 | |
Alec Bedser Alec Bedser Sir Alec Victor Bedser, CBE was a professional English cricketer. He was the chairman of selectors for the English national cricket team, and the president of Surrey County Cricket Club... |
6600 | 338 | 2024 | 130 | 15.56 | |
Jim McConnon Jim McConnon Jim McConnon was an English cricketer, who played in two Tests in 1954 as an off-spin bowler. He played for Glamorgan from 1950 to 1961, albeit missing the 1956 season when he decided to play in the Lancashire League... |
5176 | 238 | 2186 | 136 | 16.07 | |
John Warr John Warr John James Warr is an English former cricketer. He played in two Test matches for England.His Test bowling average remains the worst of any English player, but Warr turned it into comic relief in his highly humorous after dinner speeches.-Life and career:He played for Middlesex as a right-arm... |
2696 | 119 | 1011 | 59 | 17.13 |
1951 English cricket season – leading bowlers by aggregate | ||||||
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Name | Balls | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Average | |
Bob Appleyard Bob Appleyard Bob Appleyard is a former Yorkshire and England cricketer.He was one of the best English bowlers of the 1950s, a decade which saw England develop its strongest bowling attack of the twentieth century... |
7880 | 391 | 2829 | 200 | 14.14 | |
Jack Young Jack Young (cricketer) John Albert "Jack" Young was an English cricketer, who played for Middlesex and England. His first-class cricket career lasted from 1933 to 1956.... |
10022 | 735 | 2976 | 157 | 18.95 | |
Jim Laker Jim Laker James "Jim" Charles Laker was a cricketer who played for England in the 1950s, known for "Laker's match" in 1956 at Old Trafford, when he took nineteen wickets in England's victory against Australia... |
7809 | 400 | 2681 | 149 | 17.99 | |
Eric Hollies Eric Hollies William Eric Hollies was an English cricketer, who is mainly remembered for taking the wicket of Donald Bradman for a duck in Bradman's final Test match innings, in which only four was needed for a Test average of 100... |
8360 | 500 | 2566 | 145 | 17.69 | |
Roly Jenkins Roly Jenkins Roly Jenkins was an English cricketer, almost exclusively for Worcestershire as a leg spinner in the period immediately after World War II... |
7147 | 219 | 3342 | 143 | 23.37 |
External sources
Annual reviews
- Playfair Cricket AnnualPlayfair Cricket AnnualPlayfair Cricket Annual is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April, just before the English cricket season is due to begin. Its main purposes are to review the previous English season and to provide detailed career records and potted biographies of current...
1952 - Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1952