Someone with more time and patience than I possess has calculated who has scored the most (first class) runs and taken the most wickets at Edgbaston.
Any guesses as to the identities of the two players?
Someone with more time and patience than I possess has calculated who has scored the most (first class) runs and taken the most wickets at Edgbaston.
Any guesses as to the identities of the two players?
Dennis Amiss and Eric Hollies perhaps.
W G Quaife
Eric Hollies
UrsaMinor - yes, you've called it right.
W. G. Quaife 16891 runs at 40.02 and Eric Hollies 1048 wickets at 19.28.
If OH-D plays for another 20 years, he could just overtake Eric Hollies.
If I were being facetious (moi?), I'd ask how long it would take Danny Briggs but I know it's a different game now.
The length of Quaiffe's career is legendary and, back then, it would have been six days a week. I wonder what his strike rate was?
As for Quaife's strike rate, it's difficult to work out because everything was judged on time rather than balls bowled in his day.
BUT - looking at his famous last innings at Edgbaston v Derbyshire in 1928 when he scored a century (and was aged 56!), Wisden says that he batted 4 hours and 20 minutes for his 115. Looking at the number of overs bowled and assuming that he had about half of the strike, I reckon he scored at around 41 runs per hundred balls, slow by present day standards but not bad for his age!