april september english professional cricketer played lancashire right arm fast bowler recognised fastest county cricket widely criticised throwing bowling ball probably played england australia born qualified play lancashire residency class debut adopted county bowling effective best year topped national bowling averages claiming wickets average presence number suspect actions lancashire team resulted counties refusing play fixtures ruling barred playing lancashire qualification county breached living winter ruling forced retirement county cricket continued appear matches years following claimed wickets class cricket average claimed wickets match occasions primarily tail end batsman scored runs score early career born april employed coal number born sought professional contracts lancashire lancashire cricket leagues began paying best players appear creating exodus talent county gained employment professional cricketer single innings match season took wickets conceded runs following season took wickets opposition finishing figures end chosen play gentlemen players benefit match professional took match overs help win innings early improved previous efforts taking lancashire professional performances drew attention qualified basis residency debut yorkshire august required bowl innings scoring run bowled overs wicket second innings took maiden wicket class cricket second match kent benefit match played took district september match lancashire came june claimed best bowling season claimed wickets consistently season finished wickets seven matches average played times lancashire taking seven wickets bowled little effect took wickets match surrey oval matches year claimed wickets completed season thirteen wickets average season best started wicket match took seven wickets touring australians early june following match somerset took second innings help lancashire innings victory took wickets innings occasions season including twice match middlesex claim wickets match playing match liverpool district touring australians took best bowling figures innings season claiming seven wickets took pair wicket surrey late august finish wickets match final match season fixture australians took wickets match north took class wickets average topping national bowling averages lancashire recognised publications champion county commonly joint champions addition lancashire took wickets average thirteen obituary suggested accusations throwing selected sole test match touring australians oval throwing controversies article written australian daily newspaper unnamed member australian reported bowled delivery like throw feel sure allowed australia know throwing england common bowling pity delivery cause discussion successful year despite commonly held view threw ball called ball throwing middlesex refused arrange matches lancashire perceived unfair bowling teammates continued bowl effectively peaked end season claiming seven wickets innings rest playing combined lancashire yorkshire seven innings lancashire surrey best bowling figures career north south match surrey held oval crowd cries thrown shouted bowling spell protests drew lancashire captain refuse complete match end season match scored highest class score bat reaching runs second innings took wickets average placing national bowling averages lancashire policy recruiting professional regard qualification play county caused bad feeling counties notably native counties escalated receiving provocative christmas card lancashire committee sent aggressive response rules necessary players county shall born reside lancashire men preference end season meeting county lord held proposal counties agree employ bowler action doubtful proposal essentially gentlemen agreement try prevent unfair bowling necessitated refusal intervene resolution signed representatives surrey yorkshire gloucestershire sussex refused sign representative lancashire result middlesex joined lancashire strong claimed wickets match occasions oxford_university late early june match north south claimed seven wickets innings record match figures crowd lord followed example set oval previous year match collected seven wickets innings match classified class completed wicket haul wickets second innings faced touring australians twice june taking wickets north collecting wickets liverpool district report writing owing principally successful throwing australian innings closed considered selection test australia played lancashire ground official home ground chose england team match lord harris announced participate selected result lord harris chosen lancashire official end play lord harris captain led protests throwing forced retirement kent reasonably satisfied lancashire match dropped nash meeting sides august year nash lord harris hoped indicated lancashire making efforts free agreement counties place position termination county cricket career lancashire unable face sides maintained boycott chosen appear england cambridge_university took seven wickets late took match lord harris unhappy return nash lancashire requested kent committee cancel home fixture lancashire committee agreed argument kent class county refuse play lancashire played matches lancashire ruled breached residency qualification returning live winter period allowed play lancashire effectively ending class career nash retired county cricket end criticisms action fixtures lancashire resumed played class matches cambridge_university peak considered fastest england described difficult play obituary reported majority experts having describing rank grace scarcely noting inclined think ought widespread opinion action professional reluctant ball class matches claimed wickets average took wickets match occasions wickets innings times scored runs high score later life career remained lancashire expulsion county playing variety club sides church died september burial paid throwing cricket came head early twentieth century careers number professional came close notably lancashire somerset
Jack Crossland