february april english cricketer played oxford_university somerset slow left arm orthodox bowler described obituary somerset best bowler time club oxford team said university best class career confined university years appeared oxford somerset close bowling averages teams season class wickets placed prolific wicket country somerset temporary loss class status brought premature end class career continued play second class cricket time somerset resumed class cricket lost place following emergence acquisitions died age engaged work early life born parish outside second son educated played school cricket team later known bowler occasionally opened batting school time played games university county cricket completion studies attended oxford_university played collected wickets innings conceding runs overs won runs played matches university team freshman year opening bowling debut class cricket june appearing university claimed wicket match university lost innings appeared times class cricket university according author history lucky chosen year play university match cambridge_university lancashire took wickets innings took wickets better average preferred contest cambridge gaining blue claimed wicket innings match cambridge won seven wickets attributes loss combination weather oxford loss toss resulted cambridge batting good batting pitch rain followed oxford batted pitch described nasty university summer break debut somerset match county late july appeared times county opposition matches season collected class wickets average highest class score making runs somerset second innings hampshire came bat score runs loss seven wickets wicket fall time somerset moved shared tenth wicket partnership somerset lost match seven wickets played oxford_university class matches team described remarkable oxford best university won seven matches narrowly lost opening match australians innings took second innings wickets maiden class wicket haul wickets tourists captain later summer scored runs england test wrote australians bowled performance best university collected wickets steadily finished oxford second prolific wicket claimed wickets second taken average ranked fifth university match year claimed wickets innings batting oxford innings quickly scored runs bowling cambridge second innings claimed opponent final wickets runs returned play somerset summer break playing matches county claimed wickets double prolific somerset bowler best performance came hampshire claimed second innings wickets help somerset victory season following season returned play oxford_university successful team previous year despite availability squad oxford win single match university average excess having averaged previous season team came rely bowling slow left arm began season wicket haul innings followed wickets second improved performance match taking wickets innings lancashire complete maiden wicket haul class match northern county won runs effective later matches claiming wickets innings twice going university match oxford bowled day cambridge opened innings lead claimed solitary wicket overs oxford recovered second innings scored contributed runs leaving cambridge requiring runs win day play remaining according bowled great skill morning claimed cambridge wickets supported fellow cambridge achieved victory lunch final day somerset leading wicket claiming wickets match county summer recorded second wicket match claimed wickets innings second somerset recorded win year match county hampshire time southampton somerset field men fixture batting reached hampshire response contemporary match report recorded capital performance innings taking wickets cost runs despite performance hampshire passed somerset total innings lead runs somerset scored second innings leaving hampshire requiring win bowled overs second innings failed add wicket tally hampshire won match wickets performances saw selected games gentlemen festival team young oxford team mates season page number players cambridge team chosen claimed wickets innings match failed players class wickets eighteenth highest country later life graduated oxford gaining year collecting years later continued play cricket somerset stage stripped class status reasons organised played class fixtures season performances expected class county succeeded fielding players matches picked plenty wickets particularly match hampshire innings devon innings highlights additions resulted bowling frequently final appearance county august required bowl match somerset won wickets thanks tyler woods described chief bowler county class died april aged employed work
E. W. Bastard