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| name = Sam Hargreave |
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| image = Sam Hargreave c1905.jpg |
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| birth_date = 22 September 1875 |
| birth_date = 22 September 1875 |
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| birth_place =[[Rusholme]], Lancashire, England |
| birth_place = [[Rusholme]], Lancashire, England |
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| death_date = 1 January 1929 (aged 53) |
| death_date = 1 January 1929 (aged 53) |
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| death_place = [[Stratford-upon-Avon]], Warwickshire, England |
| death_place = [[Stratford-upon-Avon]], Warwickshire, England |
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| batting = Left-handed |
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| bowling = Slow left arm orthodox |
| bowling = [[Slow left arm orthodox]] |
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| testdebutyear = 1899 |
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| lasttestyear = 1909 |
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'''Sam Hargreave''' (22 September 1875 – 1 January 1929) was the most successful [[bowler (cricket)|bowler]] for [[Warwickshire County Cricket Club|Warwickshire]] until the success of [[Frank Foster (cricketer)|Foster]] and [[Frank Field (cricketer, born 1874)|Field]] in winning the 1911 County Championship. |
'''Sam Hargreave''' (22 September 1875 – 1 January 1929) was the most successful [[bowler (cricket)|bowler]] for [[Warwickshire County Cricket Club|Warwickshire]] until the success of [[Frank Foster (cricketer)|Foster]] and [[Frank Field (cricketer, born 1874)|Field]] in winning the 1911 County Championship. |
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Although the presence of [[Wilfred Rhodes]] and [[Colin Blythe]] made higher representative honours always out of his reach,<ref>{{cite book|last=Frith|first=David|title=The Slow Men|year=1985|publisher=Corgi|location=London|isbn=9780552124935|page=90}}</ref> for a couple of years in the early 1900s Hargreave was regarded as the best left arm slow bowler in England apart from Rhodes.<ref name="john">{{cite book|editor-last=Pardon|editor-first=Sydney H.|editor-link=Sydney Pardon|title=[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack]]|edition=40|year=1903|page=113}}</ref> His accuracy was always exceptional and on helpful pitches he could spin the ball a great deal. Being faster than Rhodes or Blythe,<ref>{{cite book|last=Pearson|first=Harry|title=The Trundlers|year=2013|publisher=Little Brown|location=London|isbn=9781408704066|page=52}}</ref> Hargreave was very difficult to hit and his steadiness made him valuable on the generally very plumb wickets that characterised Edgbaston in fine weather during that era. Hargreave was no batsman, but he was a capable fieldsman at point or slip.<ref>{{cite news |title=Death of S. Hargreave — Former Warwickshire Cricketer|work=The Hinckley Echo|location=[[Hinckley]], [[Leicestershire]], [[England]]|date=4 January 1929 |page=7}}</ref> |
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==Career== |
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| ⚫ | Sam Hargreave played for [[Lancashire County Cricket Club|Lancashire]]'s second eleven in the middle 1890s, but having no opportunity with [[Johnny Briggs (cricketer)|Briggs]] so dominant he left Lancashire to join the Edgbaston ground staff<ref name=Surreyv>{{cite news |title=Surrey v Warwickshire |work=[[The Standard (London)|The Standard]] |date=5 September 1899 |location=[[London]] |page=8}}</ref> and qualify for Warwickshire.<ref name="john1">{{cite book|editor-last=Caine|editor-first=C. Stewart|title=John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack|year=1930|chapter=Deaths in 1929|page=252|edition=68}}</ref> He became qualified for Warwickshire near the end of 1899,<ref name=Surreyv/> but playing in two matches did nothing apart from a surprise 44 against [[William Lockwood (cricketer)|Lockwood]] at his most destructive, which was to remain his second-highest score in first-class cricket. However, he rose very quickly to a permanent place in 1900, and in the following year, in a summer all against bowlers especially on so good a ground as Edgbaston provided in fine weather, Hargreave bowled so well under all conditions that he was in the top ten of the first-class averages. On a helpful pitch Hargreave already showed how difficult he could be with such performances as seven for 50 at Worcester and fourteen for 115 against London County, but he bowled beautifully under all conditions. |
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In the following two seasons, almost continuously helped by the condition of the pitches, Hargreave went from strength to strength except when mastered completely on perfect pitches against [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club|Derbyshire]] and [[Surrey County Cricket Club|Surrey]] in August 1902. Hargreave’s form had him selected alongside [[George Thompson (cricketer)|George Thompson]] as one of two professionals on a tour to New Zealand under [[Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke|Lord Hawke]] where he would be somewhat disappointing,<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Pardon|editor-first=Sydney H.|title=John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack|year=1904|publisher=John Wisden and Co.|location=London|page=439|chapter=Lord Hawke’s Team in New Zealand}}</ref> in addition to being utterly ineffective owing to his wholly mechanical style in three matches played in Australia.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Pardon|editor-first=Sydney H.|title=John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack|year=1904|publisher=John Wisden and Co.|location=London|pages=459-460|chapter=Lord Hawke’s Team in Australia}}</ref> Hargreave gained revenge for Surrey’s mastering of his bowling in 1903 on a sticky Oval pitch, when in the best-known and biggest feat of his career he took fifteen for 76 after being initially left out as he was returning home with Thompson, [[Bernard Bosanquet (cricketer)|Bernard Bosanquet]], and [[Edward Dowson (cricketer, born 1880)|Toddles Dowson]] on the ''Oroya'' ship and then overland from [[Paris]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Hargreave in Form|work=[[The Manchester Evening News]]|date=9 May 1903|page=2}}</ref> Because the first day was blank Hargreave could take his place in the Warwickshire team,<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Pardon|editor-first=Sydney H.|title=John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack|year=1904|publisher=John Wisden and Co.|location=London|page=175|chapter=Surrey Matches}}</ref> and during that season every Warwickshire victory was produced by Hargreave’s deadly bowling on rain affected pitches: |
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| ⚫ | Sam Hargreave played for [[Lancashire County Cricket Club|Lancashire]]'s second eleven in the middle 1890s, but having no opportunity with [[Johnny Briggs (cricketer)|Briggs]] so dominant he left the |
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In the following two seasons, almost continuously helped by the condition of the pitches, Hargreave went from strength to strength except when mastered completely on perfect pitches against [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club|Derbyshire]] and [[Surrey County Cricket Club|Surrey]] in August 1902. It was thought his relatively slight frame could not cope with the heavy workload he had to carry on hard wickets,<ref name="john"/> but Hargreave had his revenge on a sticky Oval wicket the following year, when in the best-known (and biggest) feat of his career he took fifteen for 76 after being initially left out after returning from a tour to New Zealand. Because the first day was blank Hargreave could take his place in the Warwickshire team, and for that year every Warwickshire victory was related to Hargreave's deadly bowling on rain affected pitches: |
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* v Surrey at [[The Oval]]: six for 41 and nine for 35 |
* v Surrey at [[The Oval]]: six for 41 and nine for 35 |
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Heading the County Championship bowling averages (at least among those who bowled a reasonable number of overs) and taking more first-class wickets than anybody except Rhodes, Blythe and [[Ted Arnold]], Hargreave would ordinarily have been chosen as a ''[[Wisden Cricketers of the Year|Cricketer of the Year]]'' by ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'', but the choices of Blythe, [[John Gunn (cricketer)|John Gunn]] and [[Walter Mead (cricketer)|Walter Mead]] left no room for a ''fourth'' finger-spin bowler. |
Heading the County Championship bowling averages (at least among those who bowled a reasonable number of overs) and taking more first-class wickets than anybody except Rhodes, Blythe and [[Ted Arnold]], Hargreave would ordinarily have been chosen as a ''[[Wisden Cricketers of the Year|Cricketer of the Year]]'' by ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'', but the choices of Blythe, [[John Gunn (cricketer)|John Gunn]] and [[Walter Mead (cricketer)|Walter Mead]] left no room for a ''fourth'' finger-spin bowler. |
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It had always been thought Hargreave’s relatively slight frame could not cope with the heavy workload he had to carry on hard wickets,<ref name="john"/> and questions re-emerged when in the dry summer of 1904 he was quite out of form,<ref name="john2">{{cite book|editor-last=Pardon|editor-first=Sydney H.|title=John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack|edition=42|year=1905|page=131}}</ref> taking only half as many wickets as in 1903 at over twice the cost. However, for the two following seasons he defied his critics with tenacity and patience on generally very easy pitches: doing, in the continued absence of Field, a great deal of work on unhelpful pitches, he remained one of the best left-arm spinners in the business.<ref name="john3">{{cite book|editor-last=Pardon|editor-first=Sydney H.|title=John Wisden’s Cricketers' Almanack|edition=44|year=1907|page=108}}</ref> This work, however, took its toll in 1907 when the wickets should have allowed him as good an average as 1903, but Hargreave suffered a strain<ref>{{cite news|title=Death of Sam Hargreave — Splendid Service to Warwickshire Cricket|work=[[Coventry Evening Telegraph]]|date=January 3, 1929|page=4}}</ref> and could no longer spin the ball. He averaged as high as 22 runs a wicket for little more than half as many victims as in 1903. Shoulder troubles kept Hargreave out of the team for the second half of 1908<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Jack Bannister|last=Bannister|first=Jack|title=The History of Warwickshire County Cricket Club|year=1990 |publisher=Christopher Helm|location=London|isbn=0747002177|page=54}}</ref> and an appalling record of over 30 runs per wicket in the wet summer of 1909<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Pardon|editor-first=Sydney H.|title=John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack|year=1910|publisher=John Wisden and Co.|location=London|page=251|edition=47|chapter=Warwickshire Matches}}</ref> showed Hargreave as completely past it. Warwickshire offered him a contract for 1910, but Hargreave could not accept the terms thereof.<ref>{{cite news|title=Warwickshire’s Affairs|work=[[Evening Despatch]]|date=5 April 1910|location=[[Birmingham]]|page=8}}</ref> |
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Always affected by ill-health for the rest of his life,<ref name="john1"/> Sam Hargreave died, largely unnoticed, on the first day of 1929. At the time of his death, Hargreave still was the third-highest wicket-taker for Warwickshire behind Field and [[Harry Howell (cricketer)|Howell]]. Among |
Always affected by ill-health for the rest of his life,<ref name="john1"/> Sam Hargreave died, largely unnoticed, on the first day of 1929. At the time of his death, Hargreave still was the third-highest wicket-taker for Warwickshire behind Field and [[Harry Howell (cricketer)|Howell]]. Among spin bowlers, only [[George Paine (cricketer)|Paine]] and [[Eric Hollies|Hollies]] have exceeded his tally. |
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| Born | 22 September 1875 Rusholme, Lancashire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 1 January 1929 (aged 53) Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sam Hargreave (22 September 1875 – 1 January 1929) was the most successful bowler for Warwickshire until the success of Foster and Field in winning the 1911 County Championship.
Although the presence of Wilfred Rhodes and Colin Blythe made higher representative honours always out of his reach,[1] for a couple of years in the early 1900s Hargreave was regarded as the best left arm slow bowler in England apart from Rhodes.[2] His accuracy was always exceptional and on helpful pitches he could spin the ball a great deal. Being faster than Rhodes or Blythe,[3] Hargreave was very difficult to hit and his steadiness made him valuable on the generally very plumb wickets that characterised Edgbaston in fine weather during that era. Hargreave was no batsman, but he was a capable fieldsman at point or slip.[4]
Career
[edit]Sam Hargreave played for Lancashire's second eleven in the middle 1890s, but having no opportunity with Briggs so dominant he left Lancashire to join the Edgbaston ground staff[5] and qualify for Warwickshire.[6] He became qualified for Warwickshire near the end of 1899,[5] but playing in two matches did nothing apart from a surprise 44 against Lockwood at his most destructive, which was to remain his second-highest score in first-class cricket. However, he rose very quickly to a permanent place in 1900, and in the following year, in a summer all against bowlers especially on so good a ground as Edgbaston provided in fine weather, Hargreave bowled so well under all conditions that he was in the top ten of the first-class averages. On a helpful pitch Hargreave already showed how difficult he could be with such performances as seven for 50 at Worcester and fourteen for 115 against London County, but he bowled beautifully under all conditions.
In the following two seasons, almost continuously helped by the condition of the pitches, Hargreave went from strength to strength except when mastered completely on perfect pitches against Derbyshire and Surrey in August 1902. Hargreave’s form had him selected alongside George Thompson as one of two professionals on a tour to New Zealand under Lord Hawke where he would be somewhat disappointing,[7] in addition to being utterly ineffective owing to his wholly mechanical style in three matches played in Australia.[8] Hargreave gained revenge for Surrey’s mastering of his bowling in 1903 on a sticky Oval pitch, when in the best-known and biggest feat of his career he took fifteen for 76 after being initially left out as he was returning home with Thompson, Bernard Bosanquet, and Toddles Dowson on the Oroya ship and then overland from Paris.[9] Because the first day was blank Hargreave could take his place in the Warwickshire team,[10] and during that season every Warwickshire victory was produced by Hargreave’s deadly bowling on rain affected pitches:
- v Surrey at The Oval: six for 41 and nine for 35
- TOTAL 15 wickets for 76 runs
- v Leicestershire at Edgbaston: six for 30 and six for 49
- TOTAL 12 wickets for 79 runs
- v Essex at Edgbaston: five for 51 and six for 29
- TOTAL 11 wickets for 80 runs
- v Gloucestershire at Bristol: five for 71 and three for 40
- TOTAL eight wickets for 111 runs
- v Hampshire at Edgbaston: five for 65 and seven for 48
- TOTAL 12 wickets for 113 runs
- GRAND TOTAL for five wins: 58 wickets for 461 runs, average 7.95
Heading the County Championship bowling averages (at least among those who bowled a reasonable number of overs) and taking more first-class wickets than anybody except Rhodes, Blythe and Ted Arnold, Hargreave would ordinarily have been chosen as a Cricketer of the Year by Wisden, but the choices of Blythe, John Gunn and Walter Mead left no room for a fourth finger-spin bowler.
It had always been thought Hargreave’s relatively slight frame could not cope with the heavy workload he had to carry on hard wickets,[2] and questions re-emerged when in the dry summer of 1904 he was quite out of form,[11] taking only half as many wickets as in 1903 at over twice the cost. However, for the two following seasons he defied his critics with tenacity and patience on generally very easy pitches: doing, in the continued absence of Field, a great deal of work on unhelpful pitches, he remained one of the best left-arm spinners in the business.[12] This work, however, took its toll in 1907 when the wickets should have allowed him as good an average as 1903, but Hargreave suffered a strain[13] and could no longer spin the ball. He averaged as high as 22 runs a wicket for little more than half as many victims as in 1903. Shoulder troubles kept Hargreave out of the team for the second half of 1908[14] and an appalling record of over 30 runs per wicket in the wet summer of 1909[15] showed Hargreave as completely past it. Warwickshire offered him a contract for 1910, but Hargreave could not accept the terms thereof.[16]
Always affected by ill-health for the rest of his life,[6] Sam Hargreave died, largely unnoticed, on the first day of 1929. At the time of his death, Hargreave still was the third-highest wicket-taker for Warwickshire behind Field and Howell. Among spin bowlers, only Paine and Hollies have exceeded his tally.
References
[edit]- ^ Frith, David (1985). The Slow Men. London: Corgi. p. 90. ISBN 9780552124935.
- ^ a b Pardon, Sydney H., ed. (1903). John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack (40 ed.). p. 113.
- ^ Pearson, Harry (2013). The Trundlers. London: Little Brown. p. 52. ISBN 9781408704066.
- ^ "Death of S. Hargreave — Former Warwickshire Cricketer". The Hinckley Echo. Hinckley, Leicestershire, England. 4 January 1929. p. 7.
- ^ a b "Surrey v Warwickshire". The Standard. London. 5 September 1899. p. 8.
- ^ a b Caine, C. Stewart, ed. (1930). "Deaths in 1929". John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack (68 ed.). p. 252.
- ^ Pardon, Sydney H., ed. (1904). "Lord Hawke's Team in New Zealand". John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack. London: John Wisden and Co. p. 439.
- ^ Pardon, Sydney H., ed. (1904). "Lord Hawke's Team in Australia". John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack. London: John Wisden and Co. pp. 459–460.
- ^ "Hargreave in Form". The Manchester Evening News. 9 May 1903. p. 2.
- ^ Pardon, Sydney H., ed. (1904). "Surrey Matches". John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack. London: John Wisden and Co. p. 175.
- ^ Pardon, Sydney H., ed. (1905). John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack (42 ed.). p. 131.
- ^ Pardon, Sydney H., ed. (1907). John Wisden’s Cricketers' Almanack (44 ed.). p. 108.
- ^ "Death of Sam Hargreave — Splendid Service to Warwickshire Cricket". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 3 January 1929. p. 4.
- ^ Bannister, Jack (1990). The History of Warwickshire County Cricket Club. London: Christopher Helm. p. 54. ISBN 0747002177.
- ^ Pardon, Sydney H., ed. (1910). "Warwickshire Matches". John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack (47 ed.). London: John Wisden and Co. p. 251.
- ^ "Warwickshire's Affairs". Evening Despatch. Birmingham. 5 April 1910. p. 8.