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A History of Cricket at Sherborne School A HISTORY OF CRICKET AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL D.F. GIBBS * * * F OREWORD I find this an extremely interesting history of cricket at the School. T he c r u cial thi ng i s that, over the last forty years, cricket is the one game w h ere stand ards have dropped. The reasons are not hard to find. Firstly. until t h e fifties, all boys played cricket; the season in schools lasted three month s; H ouse matches went on for a whole week, if necessary, to get a finish. The m a jority of members of the staff had played cricket and !IO could help in some capacity. All this has changed in the last twenty or so years; perhaps sixty boys over the age of sixteen play cricket, while others are involved with tennis or athletics. Because of 'A' levels, the season is not much more than five weeks and pressure of work means that less time in the week c a n be spent on the cric ket fi eld. In addition, m a ny m e n1bers of t he sta ff hav e n eve r played c r icket and so there tend s to b e a s hortage of coaches . In the thir ties , many outstanding cricketers f rom Oxford and Cambridge went to teach at Public Schools; now such men go and play County cricket. In spite of all this, enthusiasm survives and standar ds are being maintained even if at a lower level than before. Boys who "loathe cricket" do not play, and so cannot h a ve an influence on those who lov e the game; and so it is fair to say that c ricket in the Sc hool is in a very healthy state. M.M. W. CONTENTS 1. Early Days 1841 - 1859 1 - 4 2. The Establishment of Cricket at Sherborne 1859 - 1878 4 - 8 3. Demise and Recovery 1878 - 1890 9 - 11 4. The Golden Age of Cricket 1890- 1914 11 - 14 5. The Golden Age of Sherborne Cricket 1914 - 1939 14 - 19 6. War and the Age of Sheppard 1939- 1950 20 - 21 7. The 1950's, 60's and 70's 21 - 25 APPENDICES (a) Batsmen who have scored more than 450 runs in a season:- 1895 to 1979 26 - 27 {b) Bowlers who have taken 35 wickets or more in a season:- 1895 to 1979 28 - 29 {c) School XI's since 1900 30 38 {d) Record in School matches 1865 to 1979 39 (e) Schoolboy representative appearances 40 {f) Masters i/c cricket: masters coaching 1st XI: professionals and head groundsmen 41 {g) First Class cricketers 42 - 43 INTRODUCTION Whenever a Sherborne cricketer achieves something remarkable one is asked whether his performance has ever been bettered. The School has , an unbeaten season - has this ever happened before ? A batsman scores 600 runs in a season - how many people have done this in previous -years ? One of the aims of this booklet is to answer some of these questions. Another is to put Sherborne School cricket in its historical context. Cricket at Sherborne grew up on a wave of obs essionalism with games in the years spanning the turn of the century. In the second half of the twentieth century the role of games in Public School life has changed substantially, yet Sherborne has remained a considerable force in the school­ boy cricketing world. It is interesting to trace these developments in the light of changes in the national game. Finally, it is remarkable to see how history repeats itself. We lament today the dearth of fast bowlers in the School and we suggest that the benign nature of the Sherborne wickets is an important factor in this (when last was a bowler at Sherborne warned for bowling bouncers?), yet The Shirburnian was making these remarks a century ago. And still it remains true that in the past 120 years Sherborne has turned out any number of outstanding schoolboy cricketers yet its impact on the First Class game has been strictly limited. Some of these features are explained in this booklet: there are many questions however which remain unanswered, or at least in dispute. The author would always be interested to receive observa tions and further details from those concerned in the years covered i:-1. this account, for it is only by understanding the past that one can explain the present, and thereby hope to improve the future. l. Early Days 1841 - 1859 The middle years of the 19th century saw Britain in the throes of immense changes induced by industrialisation. The growth of cricket as a national past-time and the establishment of the public schools were both directly related to these great changes. Throughout its history though Sherborne, probably by nature of its geographical position, has come in the rearguard of change. Thus it was not till 1860 that the railway reached the town; it was not till the 1860's that cricket became firmly established in the School and it was not till 1872 that the constitution of the School was changed enabling it to become a national public school instead of a small country grammar school. The Shirburnian magazine was first published in 1859 and thereafter gives consistent coverage of all cricket played at the school. Until then there is only the evidence of scattered references in local newspapers. At this time sport in the schools was solely the province of the boys and it was they who submitted these reports. Not surprisingly, they are fragmentary and one-sided. The first recorded cricket occurred in the month of August 1841, when a series of three matches was played between the Boarders and the Day Boys on Lenthay. Each match is recorded in the Sherborne Journal. The scores are low but the teams were Xl-a-side {by no means universal at this time) and the fixture seems to have become a regular event in the calendar, for the first edition of The Shirburnian comments : "the match generally causes great excitement in the School." Already there was a marked gulf between the local Foundationers, who received their education free and for whom the School had been initially founded in 1550, and the Boarders who came from further afield and paid fees. The first fixture against an outsider seems to have been the Bruton School match in September 1846 and the report from the Western Flying Post is worth quoting in full: "On Thursday last a match was played on L enthay Green between two picked elevens from the schools of Bruton and Sherborne, both foundations of King Edward the Sixth. As it was the first match ever played between the schools, it excited considerable interest, not only between the players and the separate establishments of which they were the selected champions, but also among the parents of many of the boys, and the lovers generally of this noble game. The challenge was sent from Sherborne to Bruton, but the match was played here, and on the ground of the S. C. C. The wickets were pitched at eleven o'clock, and the Sherborne boys having won the toss were the first to take the bat. It is no mere compliment to say that the play throughout, and on both sides, was very good, and displayed, even amongst these youthfui amateurs, evidence of the progress which has been made in the science of the game of cricket within the last few years. The bowling was for the most part "round arm" and the batting showed that, however the execution might occasionally fail, the theory of "hitting" was rightly understood; and there were not wanting some very pretty specimens of "forward play", the "cut to the off" and the "hit to the leg". The Sherborne School succeeded in their first innings_ in running up an account of 72, made up by the different contributions stated below . Their opponents were less fortunate, and were obliged to surrender the bat having only registered a score of 44. In their second hands Sherborne was less successful and added only 43 to their former account, thus putting Bruton in for 72 runs to win. These were soon made, mostly by a succession of fine hits by Linthwaite, and the match terminated in favour of Bruton, with four wickets to go down. Without saying a word in disparagement of the exct:llence of the play that won the· match, it is only fair to state that Linthwaite was one of the ma1ters not one of the boys of the Bruton School and no mean proficient in the game. This misapprehension of the character of the match interfered to a great extent with the interest it would else have created. It will be seen by the score, that it was to his superior batting that the result is to be ascribed, and there is no doubt but that, with the bowling with which he had to contend he could have won the match off his own bat. Indeed, it is difficult to understand how a man - and he amongst men probably a superior player - should have mixed himself up in a match intended {at least on one side) for boys only, and amongst whom therefore there was no equal player to compete with him. This little mistake (for doubtless it was one) gave a lopsidedness to the match, which in a great measure impaired the pleasure which else,. let the result have been the same, it would have imparted to all who witnessed it.
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