"25 Bowlers" - yes, just another Picture Quiz.

25

Clue:

farquen sgdt

Summary so far:

embee and JGK both had these right:

1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 19, 20 (tho JGK perhaps needs to add the "Big" - it's not Jacko, e.g.), 25.


embee also had these right: 3, 8, 15. (= Fifteen correct, ten IDs not attempted.)

JGK also had these right: 11, 14, 16, 24 (= Sixteen correct, five wrong - 3, 8, 15, 18, 23 - four IDs not attempted.)

Horace (on 24). No, not him.

Woody (on 23). No, not him.


So the six players still awaiting a correct identification are:

5, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23

But anyone else - please ignore the spoilers to start with, and give it a go! (It's what spoilers are for - you can check your answers later.)

Further clues on the missing six players:

PeterCS wrote:16

Clue:

I gi'e up Petey.

PS - Dig the exaggerated focus from umpire for a no ball - pity the bowler appealing for an lbw - no chance by the time the ump lifts his entire head to focus down the wicket!!

Ah . . . just read the answer . .

G.O. "The Filth" Allen.

I'm not surprised the Ump watched him like a hawk . . . snide barsteward.

Yes to all of those.

So only #5 to go.


Merlo:

If you look through this little gallery, there are a couple more of the umps flinching in the same way!

We will again have to differ, on Allen as on Jardine. Of course, he went too Establishment (conservative) in later life. Personally, I don't bear his private words home from the 'Bodyline' tour - reacting privately on the spur of the moment, and very much of his time, with the high-handed temper towards other races he shared with DRJ - too much against him. He played a loyal, active and effective part in winning that series, despite his differences with his skipper on two key points. You also feel he connivingly later slipperied his way to esteem and glory, at Jardine's expense. Well, it is possible to take a different view on that, too, following on from 1932-33. But that's not for here.

What IS interesting, to me in any case, is that he was a genuine fast bowler (the pic gives some indication), from an unlikely source of the Gentlemen - Cambridge University and all that, though hardly upper-class (he worked in Debenham's, before becoming - like Bradman and others - a stockbroker). Ken Farnes was another such. But the stereotype of the fast bowler, pounding in again and again in punishingly hard, heavy boots, was of course Northern miners, builders and factory workers - or at least the sons of that backbone of the nation's wealth. That he took on the workhorse role in itself makes him interesting as a player, to me at least. Not content to be just the decent bat, fielder and brainworker that you might expect of his (middle) class. Jardine's class.

That's it.

This quiz is done and dusted.