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ENGLAND V. AUSTRALIA, OLD TRAFFORD, 6, 7, 9, and 10 JULY 1954 -- A collection of 15 press agency action photographs from the third Test match; and 37 other action, portrait and team photographs, dated 1950-68, of which 25 are identified on the verso, and 25 are autographed by Statham, many relating to Test matches against Australia, South Africa and the West Indies, including a signed portrait photograph of Statham and Frank Tyson. (52)
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… 顯示更多 THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE BRIAN STATHAM C.B.E., OF LANCASHIRE AND ENGLAND The career of Brian Statham (1930-2000) was of such breadth in both temporal and geographical terms that he will always be regarded as one of the all-time greats. Of legendary accuracy, Statham was England's number one fast bowler for every M.C.C. side overseas between the years 1954-62. Unusually, however, his interest in cricket as a career did not develop at school, but while he was serving with the RAF who suggested he undergo trials with Lancashire (he was born at Gorton). Statham made his first-class debut on his 20th birthday, 17 June 1950, and went on to play over 430 matches for his county 1950-68, captaining the team between 1965-67. First time selection to the England side followed when he joined the 1950-51 tour to Australia and New Zealand. His maturing skill as a right-arm fast, later fast-medium bowler, meant that he toured both countries again in 1954-55, 1958-59 and 1962-63. Statham's name is indissolubely linked with that of Fred Trueman and Frank Tyson. He enjoyed a succesful first partnership with Trueman on the 1953-54 tour to the West Indies, and then partnered Tyson with equal success in the 1954-55 tour of Australia. However, it was during the 1958-59 Australian tour that his performance was probably at its peak. In the 1959 season he took 139 wickets at an average of 15.01, his highest ever total, but in 1958 he had taken 134 wickets at an even better average of 12.29. Altogether Statham managed to take 100 wickets in an English season 13 times. No bowler has taken more wickets for Lancashire, his best analysis being 8 for 34 v. Warwickshire at Coventry in 1957. Statistics cannot tell the full story. No one lucky enough to have seen Statham in action can forget the flowing run up, his wonderfully consistent rythm and and superb, high, loose-limbed action. Physical suppleness was matched by great calmness of temperament. The hand-on-hips postures and hard stares of the typical fast bowler were not among his psychological weapons. But, as Frank Tyson puts it, there lay hid within Statham "a dislike of batsmen which ... was nonetheless frightening in its smouldering intensity" (Cricket, the Great Bowlers, ed. J. Arlott, 1970, p. 167). He himself described his bowling as "invariably off-stump, with the ball doing little or nothing through the air but moving either way off the seam" (Flying Bails, 1961, p. 133). The important word here is "invariably." If other pacemen were luckier with wickets, but there was nothing like Statham's "nasty, nagging length" (his own words) to wear down the resistance of even the finest Australian sides. If he seldom swung the ball, his aggression "found its expression in a most alarming bouncer," and he was master of the ball that could "nip back" onto middle stump. "Never has there lived a bowler who so consistently shaved bat and stumps without statistical result," Tyson affirms (Great Bowlers, p. 172). Apart from the tours already mentioned, Statham also went with the M.C.C. to India and Pakistan in 1951-52, he returned to the West Indies in 1959-60, and toured South Africa in 1956-57. He represented England in a total of 70 Test matches between 1950-60. During the last year of his captaincy of Lancashire, he was awarded the C.B.E. for his services to cricket.
ENGLAND V. AUSTRALIA, OLD TRAFFORD, 6, 7, 9, and 10 JULY 1954 -- A collection of 15 press agency action photographs from the third Test match; and 37 other action, portrait and team photographs, dated 1950-68, of which 25 are identified on the verso, and 25 are autographed by Statham, many relating to Test matches against Australia, South Africa and the West Indies, including a signed portrait photograph of Statham and Frank Tyson. (52)

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ENGLAND V. AUSTRALIA, OLD TRAFFORD, 6, 7, 9, and 10 JULY 1954 -- A collection of 15 press agency action photographs from the third Test match; and 37 other action, portrait and team photographs, dated 1950-68, of which 25 are identified on the verso, and 25 are autographed by Statham, many relating to Test matches against Australia, South Africa and the West Indies, including a signed portrait photograph of Statham and Frank Tyson. (52)
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