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200TH WICKET FOR YORKSHIRE, 1906
cricket ball, mounted with white metal band, inscribed "G.H. Hirst from his captain Lord Hawke with this ball he took his 200th wicket for Yorkshire in 1906", supported by white metal stumps on wooden base, 7 in. (17.8 cm.) high.
Hirst was yet to capture his 200th wicket when the Scarborough Festival began at the end of August. Two of the Yorkshire spectators who went to the game in expectation of seeing the desired result against the M.C.C. were, as Thomson records, Hirst's mother and Rhodes' mother. Tension mounted as wickets fell to other bowlers on the Yorkshire side. "At last the strain grew so great that neither of the ladies could bear it a moment longer. There was only one thing to do and that was to get as far away as possible from this intolerable stress of waiting. Quietly they slipped from their seats and made their way slowly through the massed crowds towards an exit. They were a little breathless as they walked slowly down the North Marine Road. Suddenly from behind them a roar of cheering broke, swelled, and went rolling up into the sky. George Herbert had taken his two hundredth wicket -- And they had missed the sight of it" (Hirst and Rhodes, 1985, p. 47).
Hirst's final bowling figures for the season were 32 matches -- 1211.1 overs -- 262 maidens -- 3089 runs -- 201 wickets -- average 15.36. Yorkshire missed the championship by the narrowest margin, but according to Wisden were much below their form of the previous year, and had "chiefly to thank George Hirst ... As a batsman, his only fault was an occasional tendency to attempt daring pulls before he had got the pace of the ground, and in bowling he was deadly just in proportion as he could get his peculiar swerve on the ball."
cricket ball, mounted with white metal band, inscribed "G.H. Hirst from his captain Lord Hawke with this ball he took his 200th wicket for Yorkshire in 1906", supported by white metal stumps on wooden base, 7 in. (17.8 cm.) high.
Hirst was yet to capture his 200th wicket when the Scarborough Festival began at the end of August. Two of the Yorkshire spectators who went to the game in expectation of seeing the desired result against the M.C.C. were, as Thomson records, Hirst's mother and Rhodes' mother. Tension mounted as wickets fell to other bowlers on the Yorkshire side. "At last the strain grew so great that neither of the ladies could bear it a moment longer. There was only one thing to do and that was to get as far away as possible from this intolerable stress of waiting. Quietly they slipped from their seats and made their way slowly through the massed crowds towards an exit. They were a little breathless as they walked slowly down the North Marine Road. Suddenly from behind them a roar of cheering broke, swelled, and went rolling up into the sky. George Herbert had taken his two hundredth wicket -- And they had missed the sight of it" (Hirst and Rhodes, 1985, p. 47).
Hirst's final bowling figures for the season were 32 matches -- 1211.1 overs -- 262 maidens -- 3089 runs -- 201 wickets -- average 15.36. Yorkshire missed the championship by the narrowest margin, but according to Wisden were much below their form of the previous year, and had "chiefly to thank George Hirst ... As a batsman, his only fault was an occasional tendency to attempt daring pulls before he had got the pace of the ground, and in bowling he was deadly just in proportion as he could get his peculiar swerve on the ball."
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