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C.B. Fry
Before 1914 it was beauty that counted in cricket - elegance of strokes, stylishness of bowling action, quixotry in captaincy. The gallant gesture was just as important as the mammoth score, the picturesque as the efficient.Â
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England team v. Australia at Trent Bridge [1899]Â
Back row: Dick Barlow [umpire], Tom Hayward, George Hirst, Billy Gunn, J.T. Hearne [12th man], Bill Storer [wicket keeper], Bill Brockwell, V.A. Titchmarsh [umpire]. Middle row: C.B. Fry, K.S. Ranjitsinhji, W.G. Grace (captain), Stanley Jackson. Front row: Wilfred Rhodes, Johnny Tyldesley.
rookie card for C.B. Fry? Charles Burgess Fry, could be the earliest sports card for him. Ranji! Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji stunner, late 1890's Ranji card. The C B Fry card is harder to date well but it's also a stunner. Hallowe'en sale in England at Knight's cricket auctions.
C. B. Fry [born 25th April 1872] England’s Greatest Sports All Rounder.
Fry is one of the three batsman who have scored Six Hundreds in Consecutive Innings in First Class Cricket. He played 26 tests for England, played football for England and held long jump world record. He was also a politician, diplomat, academic, writer etc etc
His portrait hangs in the Pavilion at Lord’s.
Charles Burgess Fry in 1903.
The accolade for the most complete sportsman arguably belongs to CB Fry. He was known first as an England cricketer and footballer, also as a great all-round athlete who for a while held the long jump record. According to folklore he prepared for his long jump record in 1893 by smoking a cigar. John Arlott called him “the most variously gifted Englishman of any age.” Combined with his sporting prowess he was a notable scholar, so while he gained a first-class degree in Classics from Oxford University, he also collected 12 Blues and captained the University at football, cricket and athletics. He was also good enough at rugby union to play for Blackheath and the Barbarians, and showed an aptitude for other sports such as rowing, tennis and golf.
Cricket was the sport at which Fry excelled and England never lost a Test Match while he was captain. In scoring over 30,000 runs when the conditions heavily favoured the bowlers, one of his finest individual accomplishments came in 1901 when he scored six centuries in consecutive matches; a feat that had never been achieved before and one that has only been matched by Don Bradman and Mike Procter in first-class cricket since, but never beaten. In 1921 after playing for Sussex against Australia, the selectors approached him about captaining the side again. At the age of 49 he politely declined the offer and subsequently retired from cricket for good.
Not content with such glittering sporting success, Fry was also a journalist of some repute and published his own magazine, as well as standing for parliament as a Liberal, but in a rare personal failure he did not win a seat in three attempts. Perhaps the most bizarre outcome of Fry’s consummate and varied skills was that he was reputedly offered the chance to be King of Albania but did not have the requisite income of £10,000. As Neville Cardus rightly summed him up, “there has been only one CB Fry,” and one can say with a fair degree of certainty that there will never be another like him again.
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Rumpled appeal: CB Fry
The ambivalence over chucking
The ambivalence over chucking
One wonders how future generations will interpret this flurry about bowlers with incorrect actions.
I thought CB Fry was the first bowler to have a wonky action that kept umpires interested, and that either Tony Lock or Ian Meckiff was the first to be called in a Test match.
My memory is clearly over 15 degrees off, because while they were all under scrutiny at one stage or the other, it was…
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Ranjitsinhji and CB Fry in 1902
“Colonel H. H. Shri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji II, Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, GCSI GBE was the ruler of the Indian princely state of Nawanagar from 1907 to 1933, as Maharaja Jam Saheb, and a noted Test cricketer who played for England.Â
He is particularly associated with one shot, the leg glance, which he invented or popularised.”
“Fry's achievements on the sporting field included representing England at both cricket and football, an FA Cup Final appearance for Southampton and equalling the then-world record for the long jump. He also reputedly turned down the throne of Albania. In later life, he suffered mental health problems, but even well into his seventies he claimed he was still able to perform his party trick: leaping from a stationary position backwards onto a mantelpiece.”
