George Lohmann England (Eng)
Batting style	Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling type	Right arm medium fast (RMF)
	Tests	First-class
Matches	18	293
Runs scored	213	7,247
Batting average	8.87	18.67
100s/50s	0/1	3/29
Top score	62*	115
Balls bowled	3,830	71,724
Wickets	112	1,841
Bowling average	10.75	13.73
5 wickets in innings	9	176
10 wickets in match	5	57
Best bowling	9/28	9/28
Catches/Stumpings	28/0	337/0
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George Lohmann (born June 2, 1865; died December 1, 1901) is regarded as one the greatest bowlers of all time. Statistically, he holds the lowest lifetime test bowling average among bowlers with more than ten wickets. 2 June is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining. ... 1865 is a common year starting on Sunday. ... December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Darren Gough bowling A bowler in the sport of cricket is usually a player whose speciality is bowling. ... Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket. ...

He bowled at around medium pace, and on the primitive pitches of his time could gain a lot of spin, so that when rain affected the pitch he was invariably quite unplayable. However, against the best batsmen Lohmann possessed a great deal of skill and guile, and he could vary his pace, flight and break so deceptively as to worry batsmen on better pitches. He was the finest slip fielder of his time, and in county cricket a good enough hard-hitting batsman to score two centuries for Surrey and average 25 in 1887.

Early years

Lohmann first played first-class cricket for Surrey in ten matches during 1884. He did little bowling but nonetheless established himself as a regular member of the side for his promising batting. First-class cricket matches are those of at least three days length in which both teams have two innings each, involving either international teams or the highest division of domestic competition. ... Surrey County Cricket Club (SCCC) is an English domestic first-class cricket team based at The Oval in London. ...

The following year was nothing short of a sensation. Lohmann not only became Surrey's leading bowler, but was the leading first-class wicket-taker with 142 wickets. He also showed his promise as a batsman was no fluke, for he scored 571 runs. In 1886, Lohmann did equally well and played his first Test matches for England against Australia. He took only one wicket at Old Trafford, and none at Lord's, but his continued superb form in other first-class matches saw him retained for the last match at The Oval. Here, Lohmann established himself as a great bowler with a superb twelve for 104 (7 for 36 and 5 for 68), giving England what is still one of its most decisive wins in an Ashes series. Again being the leading first-class wicket-taker, Lohmann was chosen to tour Australia with Alfred Shaw's team. It has been suggested that Test status be merged into this article or section. ... Old Trafford cricket ground has been the home of Lancashire County Cricket Club since 1856. ... The Media Centre at Lords Cricket Ground Lords Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in St Johns Wood in London. ... For the shape, see oval. ... 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. ... 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. ...

World's Premier Bowler

On his first tour, Lohmann moved even further ahead of the pack as a bowler. In the Second Test at the SCG, Lohmann became the first bowler to take eight wickets in a Test innings, and in the abnormally dry summer of 1887 showed himself far ahead of any other bowler - taking 154 wickets when the next best was 114. He also made his highest score as a batsman, scoring 115 against Sussex at Hove, whilst his aggregate of runs for the season totalled 843. Lohmann again toured Australia in the winter of 1887/1888, and with Johnny Briggs formed an irresistible combination in the only Test match on a sticky wicket. SCG can be either: The ISO 3166-1 3-letter country code and an abbreviation for Serbia and Montenegro. ... Johnny Briggs is also the name of the actor who plays Mike Baldwin in the soap opera Coronation Street. ...

In 1888, a summer as wet as 1887 had been dry, Lohmann took full advantage of the dreadful pitches on which most matches were played, taking 209 wickets for only 10.90 each (including 143 in 14 county matches!). In the three Tests against Australia, Briggs, Bobby Peel and Billy Barnes did so well that Lohmann had to do little bowling at the Oval and Old Trafford. However, he took eight wickets at Lord's and made his only Test fifty at the Oval. In 1889, Lohmann again took over 200 wickets (115 for 1485 runs in purely county matches) and took nine wickets in an innings for the first time against Sussex. Robert Peel (often known as Bobby Peel) was a Yorkshire and England cricket player: a left-arm spinner who ranks as one of the finest bowlers of the 1890s. ... William Barnes (born 27 May 1852 in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England; died 24 March 1899 in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, England) was a professional cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire between 1875 and 1894 and England between 1880 and 1890. ...

Early County Championship triumphs

In 1890, the County Championship was officially constituted for the first time after years of unofficial "champion" counties (Surrey had been acknowledged as the champion county since 1887). Lohmann continued to carry all before him in 1890, taking a career-best 220 wickets and being the leading wicket-taker outside of touring teams for the sixth successive year (a feat bettered only by Tich Freeman between 1928 and 1935). For Surrey in county cricket he totalled 113 wickets, and he again helped England to victory over Australia in the only Tests where cricket took place. In 1891, Lohmann was leading English wicket-taker for the seventh successive year with 177 wickets, and on the following year's Australian tour, he again bowled wondefully well, taking eight for 58 on a dry wicket in Sydney. The County Championship is the domestic first class cricket competition in the United Kingdom, mainly in England. ... Tich Freeman (Alfred Percy Freeman; born May 17, 1888; died January 28, 1965) was a Kent leg spin bowler and the only man to take 300 wickets in an English season. ...

In 1892, with Surrey still crushing all opposition in the County Championship race, Lohmann "suffered only by comparison with previous years" (Wisden). He surprisingly ceded the position of Surrey's chief bowler to the emergent William Lockwood who took full advantage of Oval pitches being extremely fiery and untrue due to reconditionng of the square, but it still seemed as though Lohmann had many years of county and Test cricket ahead of him. A rude shock to Surrey was to come, however. Wisden is the main publisher of information on cricket in the United Kingdom. ... William Lockwood (William Henry Lockwood; born March 25, 1868, Old Radford, Nottinghamshire; died April 26, 1932, Old Radford, Nottinghamshire) was a fast bowler and the unpredictable, occasionally devastating counterpart to the amazingly hard-working Tom Richardson for Surrey in the early County Championship. ...

Illness and Comeback

After the 1892 season had ended, a dreadful shock came when it was announced that Lohmann had contracted tuberculosis. In an effort to improve his health, Lohmann sailed during the 1892/1893 winter to Cape Town, but his health did not at first improve and he could not play at all for Surrey in 1893 or 1894; indeed he could play no cricket until the 1894/1895 Currie Cup final where he turned out for Western Province. Tuberculous lungs show up on an X-ray image Tuberculosis is an infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (miliary TB), genitourinary system, bones and joints. ... The arms of Cape Town. ... There are several countries which have a subdivision called Western Province Papua New Guinea Sri Lanka This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

By July 1895 his health had recovered sufficiently for him to play again for Surrey. Fortuitously, Lohmann's return coincided with a return to extremely treacherous wickets after a long spell of very dry weather and much better pitches than Lohmann had ever bowled on before. Though completely overshadowed by the equally amazing Tom Richardson, the mere fact of missing the good wickets in May and June caused Lohmann to actually beat Richardson in the averages, though his batting (seen as an important part of his county cricket up to 1892) was completely insignificant. Tom Richardson (born August 11, 1870, Byfleet, Surrey; died July 2, 1912, Chambéry, France) was one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time and certainly the most prolific in terms of wicket-taking feats, largely owing to his amazing stamina and appetite for work, which allowed him to...

Record-Breaking Feats Against Weak Oppositions

Returning to South Africa to maintain his health, Lohmann played no more first-class cricket until February, yet on the matting wickets in three "Tests" (the England eleven was no more than England "A" of today), Lohmann was so unplayable that he took 35 wickets for the remarkable average of just 5.80 runs each. During this series Lohmann twice broke the record for best analysis in Test cricket: he took 15 for 45 in the first Test, and, after not being put on initially in the second, he became the first bowler to take nine wickets in a Test innings.

In 1896, Lohmann began to play for Surrey at the end of May, and, though he took 93 wickets and helped Richardson to put Australia out for 53 on a good wicket at Lord's, it was thought he had not come up to expectations, but he had a fully satisfactory benefit in the game against Yorkshire in August.

A pay dispute, in which he demanded twice the existing 10-pound match fee given at the time to professional cricketers caused Lohmann, along with Billy Gunn to withdraw from the last Test match. He continued to play for Surrey that August, but at the end of the season his health again degenerated and he had to return to South Africa and retire from his English career for good. William (Billy) Gunn (born 4 December 1858 in St Annes, Nottingham, England; died 29 January 1921 in Standard Hill, Nottingham, England) was a professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club in a first-class career that lasted from 1880 to 1904. ...

Last days

Lohmann immigrated to South Africa permanently in 1897 and played a full season of first-class cricket for Western Province. In five matches on matting pitches during March 1897 he took 34 wickets for 12.26 runs each, but it was clear throughout that year that his health was unlikely to recover, and he was able to play only one further fist-class match for "A Bailey's Transvaal XI".

Lohmann died in 1901 at age 36. 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

Awards

• Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1889 (actually titled Six Great Bowlers Of The Year).

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See also

• History of Test cricket (1884 to 1889)
• History of Test cricket (1890 to 1900)

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External Links

• Profile at Wisden CricInfo England
• Profile at Cricket Archive