Arthur Mailey

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Arthur Mailey Australia (AUS)

Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Legbreak googly
	Tests	First-class
Matches	21	158
Runs scored	222	1530
Batting average	11.09	12.33
100s/50s	0/0	0/3
Top score	46*	66
Balls bowled	6119	36285
Wickets	99	779
Bowling average	33.91	24.09
5 wickets in innings	6	61
10 wickets in match	2	16
Best bowling	9/121	10/66
Catches/stumpings	14/0	157/0
Test debut: 17 December 1920 Last Test: 14 August 1926 Source: [1]

Arthur Mailey (born January 3, 1886 in Sydney, died December 31, 1967 in Sydney) was an Australian cricketer who played in 21 Tests between 1920 and 1926.

Mailey used leg break and googly bowling, taking 99 Test wickets including 36 in the 1920-21 Ashes series. In the second innings of the fourth Test at Melbourne he took nine wickets for 121 runs which is a record for an Australian bowler against England.

In first-class cricket at Cheltenham in 1921 he took all ten Gloucestershire wickets for 66 runs in the second innings. His 1958 autobiography was titled Ten for 66 And All That.

Beginning his working life as a labourer, he became a talented writer and artist. Between 1920 and 1953 he published a number of booklets of cartoons of cricketers of his time. [2]