Robert Peel (often known as Bobby Peel) was a Yorkshire County Cricket Club is a county cricket club based at Headingley in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The club was founded on January 8, 1863 in the Adelphi Hotel, Sheffield. From 1891 the club moved to Headingley. It has produced many prominent figures in English cricket, including Geoffrey Boycott, Fred... Yorkshire and The English cricket team is a national cricket team representing England and Wales. It is administrated by the England and Wales Cricket Board. Cricket developed as a sport in England, so unsurprisingly England is both a founding Test cricket and one-day international nation. England played in the first Test... England Cricket (disambiguation). Cricket is a team game played between two teams of eleven players each. It originated in its modern form in England, and is popular mainly in the countries of the Commonwealth. In the countries of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, cricket is by far... cricket player: a In the sport of cricket, left-arm orthodox spin is the equivalent of off spin bowling, but bowled with the left hand. As a result, the ball spins away from a right-handed batsman, like leg spin. It is usually considered to be harder for a right-handed batsman to... left-arm spinner who ranks as one of the finest A bowler in the sport of cricket is usually a player whose speciality is bowling. A bowler who is also a competent batsman is known as an all_rounder. There are several types of bowlers and most teams will have a variety available in the team to take advantage of pitch... bowlers of the 1890s. His record in Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. It is regarded by players and serious fans as the ultimate test of playing ability (as compared to One-day International cricket). Test matches are played only between national representative teams which have Test status, as determined by the... Test matches, though flattered by the primitiveness of the pitches, is still remarkable. He was also a capable Cricket batsman A batsman in the sport of cricket is a player whose speciality in the game is batting. The skills required to be a good batsman vary with the type of cricket game being played and the situation of the game. Generally a batsman is required to score runs... batsman, who once hit 210 not out (out of a record In the UK, County cricket is the domestic form of the sport of cricket that is considered to be first-class cricket. Almost all of teams are named after, and were originally representative of, English counties (the exception being Glamorgan, which is in Wales.) In 2004, the County cricket competition... County Championship total of 887 against Warwickshire). However, he is well remembered for being the first player in Test cricket history to have been In the sport of cricket, a dismissal occurs when the batsman is out (also known as taking a wicket) Ways of getting out A batsman can be dismissed in a number of ways, the most common being bowled, caught, leg before wicket (LBW), stumped and run out. Much rarer are... dismissed four times in succession without scoring (in 1894/1895).

Born on February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 322 days remaining, 323 in leap years. Events 1541 - Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia. 1554 - A year after after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded... February 12, 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). Events January 9 - Earthquake at Fort Tejon, California with an estimated magnitude of 7.9 February 16 - The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University) is established in Washington, DC becoming the first school for the advanced... 1857, Peel emerged in Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. Start the First class cricket article If you have created this page in the past few minutes and it has not yet appeared, it may not be visible due to a delay in updating the database. Please wait and... first-class cricket for Yorkshire in 1882 and quickly established himself as a skilful left-arm spin bowler with extraordinary accuracy of pitch and the ability to bowl a fast ball that obtained many This article is about the cricket term. For the Ewok, see Wicket W. Warrick. In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings: Meanings of wicket Set of stumps A wicket consists of three stumps, upright wooden poles that are hammered into the ground, topped with two... wickets. His ability was considered so highly by 1884 that, even though he was relatively inexperienced, Alfred Shaw (29 August 1842_16 January 1907) was a cricketer, who captained the English cricket team in four test matches in 1881/2, losing two and drawing two. After retiring as a player, he became an umpire. See also Test matches in the 19th century (to 1887) External link Cricinfo... Alfred Shaw took him to Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is the sixth-largest country in the world, the only one to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia/ Oceania. It also includes a number of secondary islands, the largest of which is Tasmania, an Australian State. Australia is... Australia in 1884/1885, where he appeared in all three Tests. He took 21 wickets, but played disappointingly in the dry summer of 1885. Despite recovering his form, Peel did not play in the three 1886 Tests, but in 1887/1888 he played superbly at the Categories: Cricket stubs | Australian cricket grounds | Australian Rules football grounds | Stadiums | Rugby stadiums ... Sydney Cricket Ground, taking nine wickets for 58 In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are is scored by a batsman, and the aggregate of the batsmens scores (plus any extras) constitutes the team score. A batsman scoring 50 (a half century) or 100 runs (a century) is considered an... runs and being England's matchwinner.

In the extremely wet summer of 1888, Peel took 100 wickets for the first time and, on a series of sticky wickets, took 24 wickets for less than eight runs each in three Tests against The Australian cricket team is today regarded as the dominant team in world cricket. They have an outstanding recent Test record and in the one day form of the game were World Champions in 1987, 1999 and 2003. They are also the current ICC Test Champions and are regarded by... Australia, including 11 for 68 in the deciding match at Old Trafford is an area of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It is mainly notable for the presence of two major sporting venues. Old Trafford Football Stadium - Home of Manchester United F.C. Old Trafford Cricket Ground - Home of Lancashire County Cricket Club. ... Old Trafford. He accomplished many bowling feats that year, the most remarkable of which was 8 for 12 and 6 for 21 against Nottinghamshire (http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/f/3/f3058.html). This saw Peel named among the first batch of The Wisden Cricketers of the Year is an award given annually by the Wisden yearbook. Usually, five players are named each year, although this was not always the case in the early years - Jack Hobbs and W. G. Grace being among those to be honoured individually. Also, a player may... Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1889 (it was actually titled Six Great Bowlers Of The Year).

In the following years, Peel took over 100 wickets every year, except in 1891 when he took only 99 (a disappointing record, given the exceptionally helpful pitches of the time and the wetness of that summer). Peel equalled his 1888 haul of 171 wickets in 1890, and came close to a thousand runs in 1889 and 1891, scoring in the former year 158 against Middlesex County Cricket Club is a first-class cricket club in England, named for the historic county of Middlesex. Their home ground is Lords Cricket Ground in London. See also: Marylebone Cricket Club. External link Middlesex County Cricket Club Categories: Cricket stubs | English first class cricket teams | London sports... Middlesex. However, owing to competition from bowlers such as Johnny Briggs, Peel did not make consistent appearances in the England Test team playing in only one out of three Tests in both 1890 and 1893. Whilst his batting declined somewhat for a few seasons between 1892 and 1895, Peel headed the first-class bowling averages in 1893 and took a career-best 180 wickets in 1895, when after a slow start on much-improved wickets in very dry weather, his spin and guile made him almost unplayable when the weather broke up in July. His 15 for 50 against Somerset County Cricket Club is a county cricket club based at Taunton. After decades of life in the lower reaches of the County Championship, Somerset found success in the one day game in the 1970s under the combative, inspirational captaincy of Yorkshireman Brian Close. A trio of world class stars... Somerset and 10 for 59 against Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is a county cricket club based at Bristol. Categories: Cricket stubs | English first class cricket teams | Sport in Gloucestershire ... Gloucestershire were both match-winning performances.

Meanwhile, Peel's excellent bowling on generally very hard and true Australian pitches in the tour of 1894/1895 had seemed to cement his place as the best slow bowler in the world. Though this tour is best remembered for his then-record four successive ducks, Peel did bat well on a couple of other occassions during a close and at times gruelling series.

The summer of 1896 saw Peel, aided by the remarkably rapid improvement in pitches that occurred during the 1890s, develop so much as a batsman that he hit three centuries during one of England's driest Mays on record. The excellent pitches did nullify his spin and his average at one point was twice his 1895 average, but he was as effective as ever when rain-affected pitches returned and, chosen because of a soft wicket for the last Test, he was so unplayable that Australia lost their first nine wickets for 25 runs. (http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/f/4/f4308.html)

However, in 1897, during a disappointing season by his own standards, Peel's behaviour saw him disciplined by the Yorkshire club's committee over disagreements concerning pay. These were never reconciled, and Peel, still bowling and batting well, never played county cricket again. In fact, apart from one match for an England XI in 1899, he never played first-class cricket again. He died on August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 141 days remaining. Events 1000-1899 1099 -- First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders defeat Saracens and the Kingdom of Jerusalem is established under Godfrey of Bouillon. 1323 - Treaty of Nö... August 12, 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. Events January January 4 - End of term for Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Earl Warren. January 11 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China. January 11 - General Juanto dies in Argentina - Ramon... 1943.

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First-class Batting (http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/80/f_Batting_by_Season.html)

First-Class Bowling (http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/80/f_Bowling_by_Season.html)

Test bowling (http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/80/t_Bowling_by_Season.html)