Trevor Bailey

Trevor Bailey

Player information
Surname	Trevor Edward Bailey
Born	December 3, 1923 Westcliff-on-Sea , Essex , United Kingdom
Died	February 10, 2011 at age 87 Westcliff-on-Sea , Essex , United Kingdom
Nickname	Barnacle, The Boil
Batting style	Right handed
Bowling style	Right-handed almost-medium bowler
Player role	All-rounder
International games
National team	England
Test debut (cap 342)	June 11, 1949 v  New Zealand
Last test	February 13, 1959 v  Australia
National teams
Years	team
1946-1967	Essex
1949-1964	MCC
1947-1948	Cambridge University
Career statistics
Game form	test	First class	List A
Games	61	682	7th
Runs (total)	2,290	28,641	93
Batting average	29.74	33.42	15.50
100s / 50s	1/10	28/150	0/0
Highscore	134 *	205	38
Balls	9,712	116,665	504
Wickets	132	2,082	11
Bowling Average	29.21	23.13	26.36
5 wickets in innings	5	110	0
10 wickets in play	1	13	0
Best bowling performance	7-34	10-90	4-37
Catches / stumpings	32/0	426/0	3/0
Source: CricketArchive , December 14, 2008

Trevor Edward Bailey , CBE ( December 3, 1923 - February 10, 2011 ) was an English test cricketer , cricket writer and radio commentator.

Bailey was an all-rounder with a solid, if unspectacular stroke technique. His extremely defensive style of play earned him the nickname "Barnacle Bailey". According to the subsequently created player world rankings, he was nevertheless the best all-rounder in the world for most of his international career.

In his later life, Bailey wrote numerous cricket books and was best known as a member of the commentator team on the BBC 's live radio show Test Match Special , for which he worked for 26 years.

Early years

Bailey was born in Westcliff-on-Sea , Essex . His father was an officer in the Admiralty . He attended Alleyn Court Prep School and learned the game of cricket from Denys Wilcox , the former captain of the Essex County Cricket Club , before moving to Dulwich College . In his first year, when he was only 14, he played for the school's first team. He topped his school's rankings for the Batting Average and Bowling Average in 1939 and 1940, and became the school team captain in 1941. In 1942, in his final year at school, he again topped both lists.

After graduating from school, he served with the Royal Marines and returned to Alleyn Court Prep School as a teacher after his release in early January 1945. At St John's College, Cambridge , he studied for two years and graduated there in 1948. For the Blues , the university team, Bailey played in 1947 and 1948 in both cricket and football.

Career

Cricket

Bailey made his first-class debut in September 1945, at the age of 22, for the team of the "Under 33s" against the "Over 33s" at Lord's Cricket Ground . For his County Essex he played the first match in May 1946. He quickly became a pillar of his team and had his test debut for England against New Zealand in Headingley in June 1949 , where he achieved 6 wickets for 118 runs .

He was a right-handed almost-medium bowler , reliable right - handed batsman, and very good outfield player . He played for England in 61 Tests between 1949 and 1959. His swing bowling was an effective complement to the faster Fast Bowling by Alec Bedser , Fred Trueman , Brian Statham and Frank Tyson in later years . He achieved 132 wickets with an average of 29 runs per wicket, achieved a century (134 not out) with a batting average of almost 30 runs per elimination and 32 catches .

He was famous for his persistent, defensive striking technique. During the Lord's Test in 1953 England faced a defeat until they wrested a draw in a 4-hour partnership with Willie Watson Australia. In the further course of the test series, England was able to recapture the Ashes .

His best bowling performance was 7-34 during the fifth test (1953-54) in Kingston, Jamaica , which he achieved with his outswing bowling on a so-called flat pitch . This enabled England to knock out the West Indies team for 139 in their 1st innings. This enabled England to win this match and draw in the series with two wins each.

He played his last test on the Ashes tour to Australia 1958-59. But he personally did not have a successful tour in which he scored the slowest half-century in first-class cricket. His 50 runs took him 5 hours, 57 minutes in England's 2nd innings of the First Test in Brisbane . In his last test in Melbourne , he was eliminated in both innings without having scored a run (a so-called pair ). After that he was never again set up for the English team, but played first-class cricket for Essex for eight years.

In 1959, he became the only player after World War II to score at least 2,000 runs and at least 100 wickets in one season. The all-rounder double (1000 runs and 100 wickets in one season) he managed eight times, a post-war record that he shares with Fred Titmus . Additionally, he is one of only three players to have scored 20,000 runs and 2000 wickets since World War II (alongside Fred Titmus and Ray Illingworth ).

His first-class career began in 1946 and lasted 21 years, during which he hit 2082 wickets in 682 games, with an average of 23.13. This means that he is still in 25th place on the all-time list of the best in terms of the number of wickets. In Clacton he achieved against Lancashire in 1949 the feat of scoring all 10 wickets (for 90 runs) of an inning. With his 28,641 runs in first-class cricket, he is currently 67th on the all-time list of the best. He was a captain for his County Essex between 1961 and 1966. Between 1955 and 1967 he was also its managing director, which enabled him to earn an income from the sport of cricket, while at the same time he was officially considered an amateur player.

In 1950, Bailey was one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year .

Soccer

He played football for AFC Cambridge University (including 1946 and 1947 in the varsity match against Oxford ), the reserves of Southend United , for Leytonstone FC and Walthamstow Avenue . He was also a member of the Walthamstow Avenue team that won the FA Amateur Cup in 1951-52 . The following season he played in the team that reached the 4th round of the FA Cup . In the game against Manchester United at Old Trafford , the amateurs drew 1-1. Manchester United then won the replay in Highbury 5-2.

Author and Commentator

After his first-class career ended in 1967, Bailey played for the Westcliff-on-Sea Cricket Club for many years and became a cricket journalist and commentator. He was a cricket and soccer correspondent for the Financial Times for twenty years. He was a regular guest commentator on the BBC's live radio program Test Match Special for 26 years. His fellow commentator Brian Johnston gave him the nickname The Boil , based on the alleged pronunciation of his name as "Boiley" by Australian fans.

In 1994 he was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire .

Bailey died in a fire in his Westcliff-on-Sea apartment on February 10, 2011. His wife Greta survived the fire. The two have two sons and a daughter.

bibliography

• Cricketers in the Making , with DR Wilcox, Hutchinson
• Trevor Bailey's Cricket Book , Muller, 1959
• Championship cricket , Muller, 1961
• Improve Your Cricket , Penguin, 1963
• The Greatest of My Time , Sportsmans, 1970
• Sir Gary: Life of Sir Garfield Sobers , Collins, 1976, ISBN 978-0002167642
• History of Cricket , Allen & Unwin, 1979, ISBN 978-0047960499
• Lord's Taverners' Fifty Greatest, 1945-83 , Heinemann, 1983, ISBN 978-0434980390
• From Larwood to Lillee , with Fred Trueman , Macdonald, 1984, ISBN 978-0356104126
• Wickets, Catches and the Odd Run (autobiography), Willow Books, 1986, ISBN 0-00-218127-4
• Spinners' Web , with Fred Trueman , Willow Books, 1988, ISBN 978-0002182676

Web links

• Trevor Bailey Newsreel Archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} BBC News - Obituary: Trevor Bailey . Bbc.co.uk. December 3, 1923. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
2. ↑ Trevor Bailey dies at age of 87 . In: espncricinfo.com . February 10, 2011. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
3. ↑ Trevor Bailey . Telegraph. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
4. ↑ Reliance ICC Player Rankings . Relianceiccrankings.com. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
5. ^ The Home of CricketArchive . Cricketarchive.com. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
6. ^ 1st Test: England v New Zealand at Leeds, Jun 11-14, 1949 | Cricket scorecard . ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
7. ↑ Easy to play pitch for the batsmen. The groundskeeper responsible for maintaining the pitch had expected the West Indies to reach 700 (!) Runs.
8. ^ The second-most controversial tour in history
9. ↑ Records | Test matches | Batting records | Slowest Fifties | ESPN Cricinfo . Stats.espncricinfo.com. January 1, 1970. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
10. ↑ 1st Test: Australia v England at Brisbane, Dec 5-10, 1958 | Cricket scorecard . ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
11. ↑ 5th Test: Australia v England at Melbourne, Feb 13-18, 1959 | Cricket scorecard . ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
12. ^ Colin Weir: The History of Cambridge University AFC 1872 - 2003 . Yore Publications, Harefield 2004, ISBN 1-874427-86-0 , pp. 141 .
13. ↑ CRICKETING legend Trevor Bailey, 87, died in the early hours this morning (Thursday Feb 10) at a flat fire at a retirement complex . Thisistotalessex.co.uk. December 14, 2010. Archived from the original on May 5, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 10, 2011. 
14. ^ Trevor Bailey, Wickets, Catches and the Odd Run , Willow Books, 1986, ISBN 0-00-218127-4 , pp197-207.
15. ↑ Eminent Old Alleynians: Sports. February 10, 2011, archived from the original on May 19, 2011 ; accessed on January 27, 2013 (English). 
16. ↑ BBC Sport - Cricket - Cricket mourns England Test great Trevor Bailey . BBC News. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
17. ↑ An alternative explanation by the Daily Telegraph traces the nickname back to the pronunciation of fans on Walthamstow Avenue.
18. ↑ Updated: Cricketing legend dies in flat fire (From Southend Standard) . Southendstandard.co.uk. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
19. ↑ BBC News - Former England cricketer Trevor Bailey dies in fire . Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
20. ^ Alan Gardner: Trevor Bailey dies in fire at retirement home | Sport | guardian.co.uk . Guardian. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
21. ^ The Independent - Trevor Bailey: Combative and uncompromising cricketer hailed as the world's best all-rounder in the 1950s