NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Fred Trueman

Frederick Sewards Trueman OBE (February 6, 1931 – July 1, 2006) was a Yorkshire and England cricketer, regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers in history. Known as Fiery Fred, he was first man to take 300 Test wickets, and later became a popular and outspoken radio summariser. Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are... February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Yorkshire County Cricket Club are a county cricket club based at the Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground, Leeds. ... The logo of the England Cricket Team which shows the three Lions of England below a five-pointed crown The England cricket team is a cricket team which represents England and Wales, operating under the auspices of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). ... For the insect, see Cricket (insect). ... Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is a technique used for bowling in the sport of cricket. ... Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. ...

Biography

Trueman was born in Stainton near Maltby, West Riding (now South Yorkshire). He was educated at Maltby Grammar School. His capturing six wickets for one run against a top English league side at the age of fifteen attracted the attention of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He made his first-class debut for Yorkshire in 1949, and quickly cemented himself at county level. He rose rapidly through the English cricketing ranks, becoming one of the best of his generation's truly fast bowlers. Stainton can refer to several villages in England: Stainton, County Durham Stainton, Carlisle, Cumberland Stainton, Penrith, Cumberland Stainton, Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire Stainton, Swaledale, North Riding of Yorkshire Stainton, West Riding of Yorkshire Stainton, Westmorland Stainton by Langworth, Lincolnshire Stainton le Vale, Lincolnshire Stainton with Adgarley, Lancashire See also... Maltby, South Yorkshire, UK, is a town of about 23,000 inhabitants in a rural area about 7 miles east of Rotherham. ... West Riding could be West Riding of Yorkshire West Riding of Lindsey in Lincolnshire This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... South Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber Government Office Region of England, in the United Kingdom. ... First-class cricket matches are those between international teams or the highest standard of domestic teams in which teams have two innings each. ...

Not particularly tall for a fast bowler at 5 foot 10, he nevertheless made good use of his wide shoulders and strong legs to produce genuine pace from his classic sideways-on action. Gary Sobers regarded him as one of the finest fast bowlers he ever played against. "Fiery Fred", as he was known, also taunted batsmen with his Yorkshire humour and the icy glare that went with his aggressive nature. He made a sensational debut in Test cricket in 1952, helping to reduce the Indian second innings to four wickets down for no runs, working up tremendous pace to shake up the Indian batsmen. For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ... Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. ...

Trueman was the first man to take 300 Test wickets, and no doubt could have taken many more had it not been for numerous clashes and problems with the Yorkshire and England cricketing hierarchies.

Trueman took 2,302 first class wickets (including four hat tricks) at an average of 18.27, and 307 Test wickets at an average of 21.54. He also holds the record for most consecutive first-class matches played (67) in which he took a wicket. He reappeared in six one-day matches for Derbyshire in 1972. Trueman also played football with Lincoln City F.C. during his spell of national service in the RAF. A hat-trick in sports is associated with succeeding at anything three times in three consecutive attempts. ... Derbyshire County Cricket Club (Derbyshire CCC) is an English domestic first-class cricket team based at the County Cricket Ground, previously known as the Racecourse Ground, in the city of Derby. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Lincoln City F.C. are an English football team currently playing in Football League Two (the fourth tier of the English football league system). ... National Service in the 20th century referred primarily to conscription for military service. ... RAF is an three letter acronym for: Royal Air Force -- the Air Force of the United Kingdom (see also Air Ministry) Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion) -- a German terror organisation Rigas Autobusu Fabrika -- a factory making buses in Riga, Latvia Rapid Action Force in India RaÄunarski Fakultet RAF...

His first class career spanned twenty years (1949–1969), a remarkably long time for a fast bowler, and when he did eventually hang up his boots he became renowned for telling tall stories and anecdotes from his cricketing past. Trueman wrote a column for a Sunday newspaper for 43 years and became an after-dinner speaker, which earned enough for him to have a large bungalow in the Yorkshire Dales and a Rolls Royce — with the number plate FST 307. Image File history File links Fred-trueman. ... Image File history File links Fred-trueman. ... A village in the Yorkshire Dales The Yorkshire Dales lie in an area of high ground in North and West Yorkshire, England. ... Rolls-Royce car may refer to vehicles produced by: Rolls-Royce Limited (1906-1973) Rolls-Royce Motors (1973-2003) Rolls-Royce Motor Cars (2003-present) // Rolls-Royce cars Rolls-Royce Limited vehicles 1904-1906 10 hp 1905-1905 15 hp 1905-1908 20 hp 1905-1906 30 hp 1905-1906...

In the 1970s Trueman presented the Yorkshire Television ITV programme Indoor League, which was broadcast at 5.15pm on a Thursday evening, after the children's programmes^[1]. This show had a notably Northern, working class focus, and featured pub games such as darts (broadcast for the first time on television), bar billiards, shove ha'penny, skittles and arm-wrestling. Trueman anchored the programme with a pint of bitter and his pipe to hand, and signed off each week with his catchphrase, "I'll sithee". The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Yorkshire Television Limited is the ITV contractor for Yorkshire, England, and the surrounding areas. ... ITV (Independent Television) is the name popularly given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. In England, Wales and southern Scotland, the network has been rebranded to ITV1 by ITV plc, the owners of... The term working class is used to denote a social class. ... An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada... Standardized dart board. ... Bar billiards is a form of billiards which was possibly initially based on the traditional game of bagatelle. ... Shove hapenny (or shove halfpenny) is a traditional game with historic links to coinarama. ... Skittles (sport) is the sport from which bowling originated. ... Arm wrestling, also known in Italy as RoughanalÃ© (RÅ-fÉ™n-ÇŽlÄ), is an athletic contest in which two people place either their right elbows or their left elbows on a table, grip their hands, and try to force back the other persons hand to the table surface. ... Bitter can refer to: Bitter, one of the five basic tastes; Bitter, a kind of ale particularly popular in Britain or Bitters, a herbal preparation now used mostly in cocktails. ... Youth with pipe, by Hendrick Jansz Terbrugghen A smoking pipe is a device used for smoking combustible substances such as tobacco and cannabis. ...

Famous for his dislike of many aspects of the modern game, especially one-day cricket and the injury rate of fast bowlers, Trueman was criticized by some, such as Ian Botham, for being unduly negative about modern players and for glorifying cricket "in my day". He was an expert summariser for the BBC's Test Match Special radio cricket commentaries for many years, and his catch phrase, "I don't know what's going off out there," summed up his dismay that modern cricketers lacked his knowledge of tactics. He was nevertheless respected for his unsurpassed knowledge of the mechanics of fast bowling, and many feel he should have been used as a bowling coach for England's under-achieving sides of the 1980s and 1990s^{[citation needed]}. Ian Terence Botham OBE, (born November 24, 1955 in Heswall, Cheshire) (nicknamed Both, Beefy, Beef or Guy the Gorilla) was an England Test cricketer. ... Test Match Special (known as TMS) is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (long wave), Five Live Sports Extra (digital) and the internet to the UK and (where broadcasting rights permit) the rest of the world. ...

He was made an OBE in 1989, though, after Brian Johnston, a colleague on Test Match Special, had bestowed on him the nickname "Sir Frederick", there were those who thought he had really been knighted.^[2] Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Brian Alexander Johnston (June 24, 1912 - January 5, 1994) (known as Johnners) was a cricket commentator for the BBC from 1946 until his death. ...

Diagnosed with small cell carcinoma in May 2006,^[3] he succumbed to the disease on 1 July 2006, and died at Skipton in North Yorkshire.^[4]^[5] Small cell carcinoma is a type of carcinoma usually associated with the lung, though it can be associated with other topographies, such as in cervical cancer. ... July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Statistics Population: 14,313 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SD986516 Administration District: Craven Shire county: North Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: North Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: North Yorkshire Police Ambulance service: Yorkshire Post office... North Yorkshire is a county, located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. ...

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