- Arthur Mailey
Infobox Historic Cricketer
nationality = Australian
country = Australia
country abbrev = AUS
name = Arthur Mailey
picture = ArthurMailey.jpg
batting style = Right-hand bat
bowling style = Legbreak googly
tests = 21
test runs = 222
test bat avg = 11.09
test 100s/50s = 0/0
test top score = 46*
test balls = 6119
test wickets = 99
test bowl avg = 33.91
test 5s = 6
test 10s = 2
test best bowling = 9/121
test catches/stumpings = 14/0
FCs = 158
FC runs = 1530
FC bat avg = 12.33
FC 100s/50s = 0/3
FC top score = 66
FC balls = 36285
FC wickets = 779
FC bowl avg = 24.09
FC 5s = 61
FC 10s = 16
FC best bowling = 10/66
FC catches/stumpings = 157/0
debut date = 17 December
debut year = 1920
last date = 14 August
last year = 1926
source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/6465.html CricinfoArthur Alfred Mailey (3 January 1886 in
Zetland, New South Wales – 31 December 1967 inKirrawee, New South Wales ) was anAustralia ncricket er 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 atCheltenham during the 1921 tour, he took all tenGloucestershire wickets for 66 runs in the second innings. His 1958 autobiography was accordingly titled "Ten for 66 And All That".He also holds the record for the most expensive bowling analysis in first-class cricket. Bowling for New South Wales at Melbourne in 1926-27 as Victoria scored the record first-class total of 1107, Mailey bowled 64 eight-ball overs, did not manage a maiden and took 4 for 362. He said that his figures would have been much better had not three sitters been dropped off his bowling -- "two by a man in the pavilion wearing a bowler hat" and one by an unfortunate team-mate whom he consoled with the words "I'm expecting to take a wicket any day now."
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. [http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/239755.html]
External links
* [http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/6465.html Cricinfo article on Arthur Mailey]
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