English cricket team in West Indies in 1910-11
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The sixth team of English cricketers toured the West Indies in the 1910-11 season. For the first time the MCC
organised the tour. The team was captained by AWF Somerset and played a total of 12 matches, of which 11 are regarded as first-class
, between February and April 1911.
A party of 11 was taken:
APFC Somerset was the son of AWF Somerset, who had toured the West Indies with Lord Brackley's team six years earlier. DCF Burton and DSG Burton were cousins.
AC Johnston, LHW Troughton and GJ Thompson
all withdrew from the published side and only 11 players were eventually taken on the tour. The team was thought to be quite weak but performed better than expected. The three professionals (Young, Brown and Hearne) were all good players although Brown and Hearne were inexperienced at this time. Sydney Smith, although a native of Trinidad, was playing county cricket and Tom Whittington was a regular for Glamorgan in the Minor Counties Championship. An inevitable constraint was that, with only 11 players touring, there were occasions when local players had to be used to complete the team.
The team left England on the RMSP Clyde on 18 January 1911.
Matches played were:
First class matches are highlighted.
Of the 11 first class matches, 3 were won, 4 lost, 3 drawn and 1 tied. The minor match was won. Unlike previous tours there were no matches in any of the smaller islands.
Starting in Barbados the tourists lost the first two matches heavily but the match against a West Indies XI was won. The West Indies XI was without any Trinidad players because of quarantine restrictions.
In British Guiana the tourists won well with some good batting by Whittington and Holloway and they then beat the West Indian side. A second match against the West Indies was organised but when Archer was dropped the two other Barbados players refused to play.
The first match in Trinidad was played immediately after the tourists had got off the boat and they lost by an innings. The second match was closer although still won by Trinidad.
After the long trip to Jamaica the tourists played four matches there. Rain ruined the first two matches and after a win against Port Antonio the final match ended in a tie.
Sydney Smith was the leading player for the tourists being top of the bowling averages and second in the batting averages. Whittington and Holloway also batted well despite having only played one first class match between them before the tour started. Hearne was a success with the ball but Brown and Young were something of a disappointment. Despite being in his mid-50s the captain also turned out to be a useful bowler.
Grell and Simpson were locals who played in other first class matches during the season.
Marylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club in London founded in 1787. Its influence and longevity now witness it as a private members' club dedicated to the development of cricket. It owns, and is based at, Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London NW8. MCC was formerly the governing body of...
organised the tour. The team was captained by AWF Somerset and played a total of 12 matches, of which 11 are regarded as first-class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
, between February and April 1911.
A party of 11 was taken:
- AWF Somerset (captain)
- G Brown
- DCF BurtonCecil BurtonDavid Cecil Fowler Burton, better known as Cecil Burton, was a first-class cricketer, who played for Cambridge University , MCC and Yorkshire . He captained Yorkshire from 1919 to 1921.He was born in Bridlington, Yorkshire, England...
- DSG BurtonDavid S.G. BurtonDavid Stuart Gaselee Burton was a first-class cricketer who played 10 first-class matches for MCC on the tour of the West Indies in 1910-11.Born Stuart Gaselee Burton at Bath, Somerset on March 31, 1888, Burton batted mostly in the lower order, and did not make many runs. He did not bowl on the...
- HL Gaussen
- JW Hearne
- BH Holloway
- SG SmithSydney Smith (cricketer)Sydney Gordon Smith, born at San Fernando, Trinidad on 15 January 1881, and died at Auckland, New Zealand, on 25 October 1963, was a cricketer who had three distinct careers, playing for Trinidad in the West Indies, for Northamptonshire in England and for Auckland in New Zealand...
- APFC Somerset
- TAL Whittington
- HI YoungSailor YoungHarding Isaac "Sailor" Young was a cricketer who played for Essex and England....
APFC Somerset was the son of AWF Somerset, who had toured the West Indies with Lord Brackley's team six years earlier. DCF Burton and DSG Burton were cousins.
AC Johnston, LHW Troughton and GJ Thompson
George Thompson (cricketer)
George Joseph Thompson was the mainstay of the Northamptonshire county cricket eleven for a long period encompassing both its days as a minor county and its earliest years in the County Championship....
all withdrew from the published side and only 11 players were eventually taken on the tour. The team was thought to be quite weak but performed better than expected. The three professionals (Young, Brown and Hearne) were all good players although Brown and Hearne were inexperienced at this time. Sydney Smith, although a native of Trinidad, was playing county cricket and Tom Whittington was a regular for Glamorgan in the Minor Counties Championship. An inevitable constraint was that, with only 11 players touring, there were occasions when local players had to be used to complete the team.
The team left England on the RMSP Clyde on 18 January 1911.
Matches played were:
- 8-9 February : v Barbados
- 10-11 February : v Barbados
- 15-17 February : v West Indies XI (in Barbados)
- 23-25 February : v British Guiana
- 27-28 February and 1 March : v West Indies (in British Guiana)
- 2-4 March : v West Indies XI (in British Guiana)
- 7-9 March : v TrinidadTrinidad and Tobago cricket teamThe Trinidad and Tobago cricket team is the representative cricket team of the country of Trinidad and Tobago.The team takes part in inter-regional cricket competitions in the Caribbean, such as the Regional Four Day Competition and the WICB Cup, with the best players selected for the West Indies...
- 10-12 March : v Trinidad
- 24-27 March : v Jamaica
- 28-29 March : v Jamaica
- 31 March and 1 April : v Port Antonio (in Jamaica)
- 3-5 April : v Jamaica
First class matches are highlighted.
Of the 11 first class matches, 3 were won, 4 lost, 3 drawn and 1 tied. The minor match was won. Unlike previous tours there were no matches in any of the smaller islands.
Starting in Barbados the tourists lost the first two matches heavily but the match against a West Indies XI was won. The West Indies XI was without any Trinidad players because of quarantine restrictions.
In British Guiana the tourists won well with some good batting by Whittington and Holloway and they then beat the West Indian side. A second match against the West Indies was organised but when Archer was dropped the two other Barbados players refused to play.
The first match in Trinidad was played immediately after the tourists had got off the boat and they lost by an innings. The second match was closer although still won by Trinidad.
After the long trip to Jamaica the tourists played four matches there. Rain ruined the first two matches and after a win against Port Antonio the final match ended in a tie.
Sydney Smith was the leading player for the tourists being top of the bowling averages and second in the batting averages. Whittington and Holloway also batted well despite having only played one first class match between them before the tour started. Hearne was a success with the ball but Brown and Young were something of a disappointment. Despite being in his mid-50s the captain also turned out to be a useful bowler.
Averages
The following averages are in the 11 first class matches:Batting
| Player | P | I | NO | R | HS | Ave | 100 | 50 | C/S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAL Whittington | 11 | 20 | 2 | 678 | 154 | 37.66 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| SG Smith Sydney Smith (cricketer) Sydney Gordon Smith, born at San Fernando, Trinidad on 15 January 1881, and died at Auckland, New Zealand, on 25 October 1963, was a cricketer who had three distinct careers, playing for Trinidad in the West Indies, for Northamptonshire in England and for Auckland in New Zealand... |
11 | 21 | 3 | 547 | 81 | 30.38 | - | 5 | 7 |
| L Heath | 1 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 15 | 27.00 | - | - | 2 |
| BH Holloway | 10 | 17 | 0 | 416 | 100 | 24.47 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| ELGN Grell | 1 | 2 | 0 | 42 | 25 | 21.00 | - | - | 1 |
| DCF Burton | 10 | 17 | 0 | 334 | 57 | 19.64 | - | 2 | 3 |
| JW Hearne | 11 | 21 | 2 | 344 | 56 | 18.10 | - | 2 | 13 |
| AWF Somerset | 11 | 17 | 5 | 214 | 60 | 17.83 | - | 1 | 10/2 |
| G Brown | 11 | 21 | 1 | 298 | 35 | 14.90 | - | - | 10/3 |
| HPL Gaussen | 10 | 18 | 0 | 260 | 77 | 14.44 | - | 1 | - |
| CO Simpson | 1 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 27 | 13.50 | - | - | 1 |
| HI Young Sailor Young Harding Isaac "Sailor" Young was a cricketer who played for Essex and England.... |
11 | 19 | 2 | 225 | 73 | 13.23 | - | 1 | 5 |
| DSG Burton | 10 | 17 | 5 | 138 | 38* | 11.50 | - | - | 2 |
| GBM Liddlelow | 1 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 13 | 9.00 | - | - | - |
| APFC Somerset | 11 | 19 | 5 | 120 | 33 | 8.57 | - | - | 6 |
Grell and Simpson were locals who played in other first class matches during the season.
Bowling
| Player | O | M | R | W | BB | Ave | 5i | 10m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SG Smith Sydney Smith (cricketer) Sydney Gordon Smith, born at San Fernando, Trinidad on 15 January 1881, and died at Auckland, New Zealand, on 25 October 1963, was a cricketer who had three distinct careers, playing for Trinidad in the West Indies, for Northamptonshire in England and for Auckland in New Zealand... |
300.2 | 57 | 845 | 47 | 6-42 | 17.97 | 3 | 1 |
| HI Young Sailor Young Harding Isaac "Sailor" Young was a cricketer who played for Essex and England.... |
204 | 41 | 517 | 25 | 5-61 | 20.68 | 1 | - |
| JW Hearne | 398.4 | 62 | 1450 | 67 | 7-68 | 21.64 | 6 | 2 |
| APFC Somerset | 144.3 | 16 | 558 | 24 | 5-62 | 23.25 | 1 | - |
| G Brown | 106 | 15 | 409 | 9 | 3-26 | 45.44 | - | - |
External sources
Further reading
- Peter Wynne-Thomas, The Complete History of Cricket Tours at Home & Abroad, Guild, 1989
- A Guide to First Class Cricket Played in the West Indies. Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
- Complete First-class Match List, Volume 1 1801-1914. Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
- First Class Cricket Matches 1911. Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.