George Geary England (Eng)
Batting style	Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling type	Right arm fast medium (RFM)
	Tests	First-class
Matches	14	549
Runs scored	249	13,501
Batting average	15.56	19.79
100s/50s	0/2	8/54
Top score	66	122
Balls bowled	3,810	116,292
Wickets	46	2,063
Bowling average	29.41	20.03
5 wickets in innings	4	125
10 wickets in match	1	30
Best bowling	7/70	10/18
Catches/stumpings	14/0	450/0
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George Geary (born July 9, 1893, Barwell, Leicestershire, England; died March 6, 1981, Leicester, England) was easily the greatest cricketer Leicestershire produced before the advent of David Gower and one of the best and hardest-working bowlers of the inter-war period. Above medium pace and right-handed, Geary was able to swing the new ball very effectively but relied for most of his success on his amazing persistence and ability to bowl with slight yet well-disguised variations of pace and cut. He was able to bowl quite incredible numbers of overs on unresponsive pitches, as shown in the last Test of the 1928/1929 Ashes tour, when he bowled an amazing 81 overs on a typical billiard-table Australian wicket in very warm weather. July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 175 days remaining. ... 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Map sources for Barwell at grid ref. ... Leicestershire (abbreviated Leics) is a landlocked county in central England. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Leicester (pronounced ) is a city in the English East Midlands, on the River Soar. ... Cricket is a team sport played between two groups of eleven players each. ... Leicestershire County Cricket Club is a county cricket club based at Leicester. ... David Ivon Gower (born April 1, 1957) is a famous cricketer, former captain of the England side. ... Darren Gough bowling A bowler in the sport of cricket is usually a player whose speciality is bowling. ... Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. ... The Ashes is a regular international cricket contest between England and Australia, played every two years, so named after the trophy, which is a small wooden urn, said to contain the burnt bails from an 1882 game between the countries at The Oval. ...

Geary was also a capable lower order batsman who usually relied upon hitting, but could get runs with a quiet, if unstylish determination when they were desperately needed. Though he never scored a thousand runs - his best aggregates were 923 in 1929 and 900 in 1925 - his runs were frequently of great value to a county that never possessed any of the exceptionally high-class batsmen other counties could command in Geary's heyday. Owing to his considerable height and reach, Geary was an excellent slip catcher and, despite all the bowling he had to do, almost always his county's leading fielder.

For all his impressive build and strength, and his shrewd skill, George Geary proved a quite nervous starter in the cricket world. He played a few times for Leicestershire in 1912, and in 1913 established himself as the leading bowler of what became a very weak bowling side in good weather owing to the tragic illness of Tom Jayes. The last year before World War I saw Geary come right to the from with 114 wickets for just over 20 runs apiece, far ahead of any other bowler in the team. After serving in the air force during the war, geary was unlucky not to have his leg cut by an airplace propeller and this affected, at least temporarily, his great strength and powerful build. After a very disappointing season in 1919 in which his wickets cost over 34 runs each, Geary did not play a single first-class game in 1920 - preferring the financial incentives of a Lancashire League professional job. He played a few times in midweek games in 1921, and was so successful that he took 23 wickets on unresponsive pitches and decided to commit himself to Leicestershire again. World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ...

He was bowled relatively little (though with good success) during 1922, but the following year saw him advance into the elite of bowlers with 115 wickets for less the eighteen runs apiece, and in 1924, seemingly out of necessity given the terrible weakness of Leicestershire's batting, Geary advanced so much that he scored 864 runs for an average of 24, which was excellent in so appallingly wet a summer, and might have been denied the "double" only by an injury during June. His Test debut against a weak South African side was due only to England experimenting after the rubber had been decided and was of no consequence, but he, remarkably given how little service he had given to Leicestershire, received a benefit but it was severely affected by rain. His bowling was unaffected, though, and the following year he advanced even further, scoring a maiden century against Kent. 1926 saw Geary produce two of his finest performances against powerful batting sides (even considering the treacherous pitches): he took fourteen cheap wickets against both Hampshire and Lancashire during June. The latter match was Lancashire's last defeat for over a year and a half. He played in two of the Tests that year and saved England from defeat at Headingley with some steady batting whilst George Macaulay hit up 76, but he took only three wickets. 1927, with so many very dead wickets, was a struggle for Geary, but on the mattingwickets of South Africa he bowled so well as to be seen as the most dangerous bowler since the incomparable Sydney Barnes, taking twelve wickets at Johannesburg. Sydney Francis Barnes was one of the finest bowlers in cricket history. ...

However, a severe arm injury ruled Geary out of the last three Tests and, though he batted with some success in many games in 1928, he could bowl so little that he took only ten expensive wickets. Yet, his powerful build was seen as so vital for the rock-hard Australian pitches that Geary, with the reputation he had acquired, was still chosen. He proved a great success, heading the averages and working amazingly hard to back up probably the strongest batting side any country has ever fielded - so strong that men of such class as Phil Mead and Ernest Tyldesley could not keep their Test places. Following on from this, 1929 was his best season ever, for he exceeded 150 wickets and on a rain-affected pitch against an admittedly weak Glamorgan batting lineup had the astonishing figures of 10 wickets for 18 runs, which was at the time the best bowling figures in the history of first-class cricket. he also had his highest ever battin aggregate with 923 runs. 1930, with the Australians back, saw Geary, however, as powerless as all of England's other bowlers to stop the onslaught of Bradman. He was also affected by injury, and with Voce and Bowes developing had no chance of retaining his Test place in the following years, though he still bowled well in the wet summers of 1931 and 1932. Phil Mead (in full Charles Phillip Mead) was a left-handed batsman for Hampshire and England between 1905 and 1936. ... (George) Ernest Tyldesley (born February 5, 1889, Roe Green, Worsley, Lancashire, England; died May 5, 1962, Rhos-on-Sea, Denbighshire, Wales) was the younger brother of Johnny Tyldesley and the leading batsman in Lancashires formidable batting sides of that late 1920s which broke Yorkshires inter-war monopoly on... First-class cricket matches are those of at least three days length in which both teams have two innings each, and which involve either international teams or the highest division of domestic competition. ... Sir Donald George Bradman (August 27, 1908 - February 25, 2001) was an Australian cricket player who is universally regarded as the greatest batsman of all time, and one of Australias greatest popular heroes. ...

The dry summer of 1933 was disastrous for Geary - he took only 40 wickets and not once took five in an innings. However, despite further injuries, he bowled so well when fit that he was chosen for two Tests but his only significant contribution was an innings of 53 against the marvellous bowling of Grimmett and Bill O'Reilly at Trent Bridge. Though these proved his last Tests, 1935 saw him in such deadly form on fiery of sticky pitches early in the season that, despite injuries hampering him later, he was second in the averages to Hedley Verity and took 11 for 40 in one match against Sussex. In his second benefit match the following year, Geary produced his best bowling since 1929 on a broken pitch with an amazing 7 for 7 and 13 for 43 in the match. His last two season in 1937 and 1938 saw him decline with the ball, but his batting in 1938 was so good that he average over 30 - far above any previous season - and his three centuries. Clarence Victor Clarrie Grimmett (1891-Australian cricket player, thought by many to be one of the finest early spin bowlers, and usually credited as the developer of the flipper. ... William Joseph OReilly or Tiger OReilley (20 December 1905 - 6 October 1992), was an outstanding Australian cricketer, and, in retirement, a well-respected cricket writer and broadcaster. ... For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ... Hedley Verity (18 May 1905 - 31 July 1943) was an England cricketer. ...

His retirement at the end of that year did not mark the close of Geary's involvement with cricket. For over twenty years after that he was cricket coach at Charterhouse and in that time was seen as one of the best coaches any school has ever had. Most notably, the brilliant batsman Peter May admitted that Geary's coaching played a vital role in his development. After he left Charterhouse in 1959, Geary went to Rugby School, who were desperate for assistance to develop young players. Geary bowled, without the sweater because of the energy involved, in the nets until he was about seventy-seven, a testimony to his amazing endurance despite many injuries and other setbacks. He died after gradually failing health in 1981 at the age of eighty-seven. Charterhouse is a Carthusian monastery founded in 1371 by Walter de Manny, in Smithfield in the City of London. ... Peter Barker Howard May, C.B.E. was born( 31 December 1929 in Reading, Berkshire and died on 27 December 1994) in Liphook, Hampshire from a brain tumour. ...

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