Date-stamped : 03 Feb95 - 22:29
Extract from "Cricket of Vintage"

(FULL SCORE, Neville Cardus, Cassell, London 1970)

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I am rather at a loss to account for Trevor Bailey's 100  wickets
taken  in a season in which he scored 2011 runs, in 1959; because
he spent so much time compiling, or secreting, his runs as  bats-
man.   One  day  he  stationed  himself at the batting crease for
several hours engaged in acquiring 50 odd runs.  In my report  of
this somnambulistic innings, I wrote to the following effect:

"Before he gathered together  20  runs,  a  newly-married  couple
could  have left Heathrow and arrived in Lisbon, there to enjoy a
honeymoon.  By the time Bailey had  congealed  50, this   happily
wedded  pair  could  easily  have settled down in a semi-detached
house in Surbiton; and by the time his innings had  gone  to  its
close they conceivably might have been divorced."

Nonetheless, Bailey was a character, not an  adding-machine.   He
stonewalled  passionately,  inveterately; and where human passion
in in action, there can be no evaporation  of  dull,  anaesthetic
air.

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<END> Contributed by murari (venka@*me.utexas.edu)