Tail-ender

Tail-ender

Horace c1890, a horse of such exquisite sensibility that when Fred Morley, the invariable Notts last man, left the Trent Bridge pavilion, it sidled unobtrusively towards the roller. "Carr's Dictionary of extra-ordinary English Cricketers" [ 1977, Kettering, J.L.Carr ISBN 0274563739 ]

Tail-ender is a cricketing term for the last batsmen in a team who are not technically proficient in the art of batting, and as a result, do not contribute many runs to their side's total. Such players are, most usually, extremely talented bowlers such as A.P "Tich" Freeman [ "Tich" Freeman and the decline of the Leg-Break Bowler Lemmon, D (1982, London, George Allen and Unwin) ISBN 0047960558 Appendix p132] or Jack Davey, "a Crown Prince of No. 11s" [ 1975 Wisden Easterbrook, B "The Willing workhorses of First-Class Cricket" p154 (1975, London, Sporting Handbooks Ltd ISBN 0850200482 ] .

While still proudly present at amateur level [ [http://www.hardinghamcc.co.uk/?area=players&id=486 Proudly self-titled] ] , they are increasingly rare in the professional game [ [http://www.cricket.mailliw.com/archives/2006/01/24/gimme-a-tailender/ Their absence mourned] ] . A notable current tail-ender is the New Zealand bowler Chris Martin who has a Test match average of 2.46 over 55 innings, including 21 ducks.

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