Talk:Tom Richardson

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[edit] Fiery Pitches?

There are two references early in the "Becoming Great" section to "fiery"/"fiery and untrue" Oval wickets. My understanding was that the Oval pitches, though fast, were truer than most at this period. JH 18:10, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

I've now done some research on CricketArchive, and the following were Surrey's scores in their matches at The Oval in 1892 and 1893. (I've looked at Surrey's scores, since their strong attack would have tended to reduce their opponents' score, whereas their own batsmen would have had to face both strong and weak attacks during the course of a season.) 1892: 115 & 300, 267 & 162, 210 & 172-2, 326 & 41-2, 245 & 189, 413, 129 & 159, 229 & 71-2, 211 & 65-0. 1893: 122 & 226, 181 & 113, 180 & 19-3, 356 & 10-0, 100 & 141, 325 & 111, 356 & 118-8, 146 & 202, 288, 290 & 4-0. By the standards of the time, these seem like quite respectable scores. Over those two seasons, Surrey were never dismissed for under 100 in their home fixtures. JH 20:34, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 15 Wickets vs Essex

Richardson first played for Surrey, his native county, in 1892, and showed promise with some superb performances in minor matches, notably fifteen wickets against Essex. Cricketarchive has no record of this. Of course, if it happened in a non first-class fixture then it might well not have been included. However he did take 15 wickets against Essex in 1894, and I wonder if someone could have got the year wrong? JH 18:28, 29 November 2006 (UTC)