Walter Mead England (ENG)
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm offbreak, Legbreak
	Tests	First-class
Matches	1	429
Runs scored	7	4991
Batting average	3.50	10.61
100s/50s	-/-	1/5
Top score	7	119
Balls bowled	265	89777
Wickets	1	1916
Bowling average	91.00	18.99
5 wickets in innings	-	152
10 wickets in match	-	39
Best bowling	1/91	9/40
Catches/stumpings	1/-	194/-
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Walter Mead (born April 1, 1868, Clapton, London, died March 18, 1954, Shelley, Essex) was the principle bowler for Essex during their first two decades as a first-class county. As a member of the Lonrd's ground staff, he was also after J.T. Hearne the most important bowler for MCC and Ground, who in those days played quite a number of first-class matches. April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Media:Example. ... Upper Clapton is a place in the London Borough of Hackney. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... is the 77th day of the year (78th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Muttiah Muralitharan bowling A bowler in the sport of cricket is usually a player whose speciality is bowling, analogous to a pitcher in baseball. ... Essex County Cricket Club is a county cricket club based at the County Cricket Ground, Chelmsford, though with smaller grounds elsewhere. ... John Thomas Hearne (born May 3, 1867; died April 17, 1944) (known either as Jack Hearne or J.T. Hearne to avoid confusion with J.W. Hearne to whom he was only distantly related) was a Middlesex and England medium-fast bowler. ... Lords 2005 The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), founded in 1787, is a private members club and was the original governing body of cricket in England and across the world. ...

A right arm bowler of slow to medium pace, Walter Mead always maintained an excellent length and could spin back to deadly effect whenever wickets were affected by rain. He could vary his stock off break with a ball that turned the other way, but he lacked the deceptive flight that enabled such bowlers as Blythe, Dennett or J.C. White to do well on firm pitches. He rarely did much as a batsman, but when sent in as night-watchman against Leicestershire in 1902 he surprised the crowd so much by making 119 that there was a special collection for him as a reward. Colin Blythe (born May 30, 1879 in Deptford; died in World W ar I on the Forest Hall to Pimmern military railway line, Belgium on November 8, 1917) was a Kent and England left arm spinner who is regarded as one of the finest bowlers of the period between 1900... George Dennett (in full Edward George Dennett and sometimes erroneously just Edward Dennett) was a left arm spinner for Gloucestershire between 1903 and 1926, and one of the best bowlers never to play Test cricket. ... John Cornish White, known as Farmer or Jack, (19 February 1891–2 May 1961), was an English cricketer who played for Somerset and England. ... Grace Road cricket ground,Leicester. ...

Even before Essex had been elevated to first-class status, Walter Mead already had a reputation as a bowler of class. Against the touring Australian in 1893 he took seventeen wickets, but the following year when Essex became first-class he was disappointing on pitches that should have helped him, taking only 41 wickets in eight inter-county matches for 21 each. In 1895, however, after a slow start, he became deadly when wickets became sticky during the middle of July. For the whole summer Mead obtained a record of 179 wickets for less than fifteen runs apiece, and his 17 for 119 against Hampshire is easily the best bowling for a losing side in first-class cricket. Only Tich Freeman has since taken seventeen wickets twice in matches of comparable importance. 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. ...

1896 and 1897, with most pitches unfavourable to him due to dry weather, were disappointing, but Mead gradually rebounded in the following years. An excellent performance against the Australians in 1899 saw Mead chosen for his only Test match at Lord's, but he was harmless on the hard pitch. He remained close to the op of the first-class averages for every seaosn from 1899 to 1903 - though in 1901 he was helped by some very bad Lord's wickets when playing for the MCC - and in the last-named year was chosen as a Cricketer of the Year by Wisden after heading the first-class bowling averages with best match firgures of twelve for 76 against Surrey at the Oval and fifteen for 115 against Leicestershire at Leyton. A Test match in progress. ... Wisden is the main publisher of information on cricket in the United Kingdom. ... Surrey County Cricket Club (SCCC) is an English first-class cricket team, based at The Oval cricket ground in south London. ... Grace Road cricket ground,Leicester. ...

However, over the 1903/1904 winter Walter Mead's career with Essex terminated temporarily as a result of a dispute over winter pay. They missed him badly in 1904 and 1905, and by 1906 he had agreed to return to the eleven. Considering the remarkable dryness of the 1906 summer in the Home Counties, he bowled very well, and in 1907 he was almost as difficult as ever on the soft pitches. In 1908, however, Walter Mead declined so badly, taking only 48 County Championship wickets, that it was clear his best days were over. Despite a minor revival in 1910 and 1911, when Mead failed to make the most of continuous soft wickets in 1912 it was clear his career was over, so that he dropped out of the eleven before 1913 ended despite Essex having no spin bowler to replace him. The phrase Home Counties is used to designate the group of English counties which border or surround London. ...

Mead left the Lord's ground staff in 1918, and died at the age of eighty-five in 1954.

External links

• First-Class Bowling in Each Season