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ly maintained something of the same form nottinghamshire did not play for a few days but on the first day of their next game against gloucestershire at bristol his team batted first promoted to number seven he came in to bat around 6pm when play ended 30 minutes later he had hit 60 out of 80 runs scored including four fours and four sixes one of which struck the pavilion clock in contrast to his 189 there were plenty of press in attendance and photographers captured several of the strokes he played he was out next morning without adding to his overnight score alletson batting in the match immediately after his 189 when he scored 60 against gloucestershire at bristol images daily mirror 27 may 1911 in the excitement surrounding his feats he was chosen to play for p f warner s xi against g l jessop s xi in a test trial organised in the absence of any test matches that summer he scored just 15 and 8 and that was as close as he ever came to representative cricket and was the only first class match he played for a team other than nottinghamshire after this there was inevitably a slump alletson did not reach a first class fifty again that season and only passed thirty twice from the scanty mentions in match reports he continued to score quickly and hit sixes but got out too easily by the end of the season his record was 626 runs at an average of 23 18 which remained the best seasonal average of his career yet his name remained in the news and expectations were high despite cautions from commentators in july the man with whom he was so often compared in 1911 gilbert jessop selected him to play for his side in one of the friendly matches so characteristic of the period a two day game at wolverhampton batting alongside jessop and the veteran w g grace alletson scored 51 and 113 against an undemanding mainly amateur attack the latter innings contained four sixes and eighteen fours but by 1912 alletson was struggling to hold down a place in the nottinghamshire team he played just nine matches with a top score of 36 and an average of 14 50 when nottinghamshire played at hove that season there was some regret that at the venue of his great triumph he was only seen briefly as a substitute fielder in later years stories grew that alletson fell from grace through attempting to play as a proper batsman after his great innings and it is true that occasional grumbles appeared in for example cricket when he was defending or scratching around for runs but arlott both in his biography of alletson and in the obituary he wrote years later argued that alletson always had a fairly orthodox defensive technique and that never changed however he was not quite done and in 1913 had his best season in first class cricket even if he never came close to replicating his 189 he scored 634 runs at an average of 21 13 and had several successes playing early in the season he found form in his third match selected against sussex although at trent bridge this time he hit 69 in 47 minutes out of 98 runs scored while he was at the wicket he hit three sixes and eight fours he followed up with some solid and rapid innings and then hit 55 in 25 minutes out of 63 against leicestershire at loughborough later he scored 61 against middlesex but his best innings came against derbyshire at the beginning of july alletson walked to the wicket on the first day with the score 186 for six the derbyshire slow left arm bowler frederick bracey said to his captain within earshot of alletson that he would get him out alletson went on to score 88 in 60 minutes out of 109 when bracey came on alletson hit him for four sixes in two overs two of which went over the stands and a third hit some houses 150 yards outside the ground he faded again after this but still made a few substantial scores perhaps more interesting was the development of his bowling several writers most notably in cricket continually criticised the nottinghamshire captain a o jones for so rarely giving alletson the ball but alletson who had originally considered himself more of a bowler than a batsman had been experimenting with finger spun leg breaks since 1907 in this period leg breaks had become fashionable particularly after bernard bosanquet discovered how to bowl the googly yet some critics remained skeptical about leg breaks which were bowled by using the wrist and therefore tended to be slow the only bowler capable of bowling fast leg breaks was s f barnes who around this time was the best bowler in the world no one ever quite succeeded in reproducing barnes style in which he used his fingers rather than wrist to spin the ball although there was excitement in the 1920s when it appeared that the young ian peebles could bowl finger spun leg breaks at pace therefore what alletson was attempting to bowl was highly unusual he recalled in his correspondence with arlott practising with his father on the welbeck estate he bowled in the orchard there and his father fielded the ball to return it to him but it took a long time to perfect and it was not until 1913 that he felt able to deliver it in a first class match he was immediately successful alletson was used in the match against sussex in late june then against kent who were to be that season s county champions he took two for 6 and four for 34 in the next match the one in which he scored 88 he took four for 15 in thirteen overs against derbyshire his leg breaks were proving highly effective but then by his own recollection in the next match against gloucestershire he delivered two maiden overs before the umpire george harrison quietly told him to stop bowling the explanation came in the wisden report on nottinghamshire s season as a bowler alletson won the kent match at trent bridge but he was scarcely tried afterwards it being freely rumoured that complaints were made about his bowling in other words people suspected that he threw the ball as throwing had become a taboo subject in english cricket following the crackdown ten years earlier that was the end of alletson as a bowler in fact there wasn t much more of alletson as a first class cricketer after his loss of form towards the end of the 1913 season he played just twice in 1914 in his last match played in may he scored 17 and 3 against derbyshire and bowled two overs to take one wicket but george harrison was again the umpire after alletson completed his second over harrison went to speak to jones his captain and he was taken off he was left with underwhelming first class figures of 3 217 first class runs at 18 59 and 33 wickets at 19 03 from 119 first class matches in september 1913 there was potentially an embarrassing incident in the press concerning alletson s half brother arthur a woman pleaded guilty in court to attacking him with a whip the reason being that she suspected his wife to whom he was only newly married of having an affair with her husband however the court heard that the letters were written by someone else purely to cause trouble and the woman was bound over to keep the peace for six months no connection was made with the nottinghamshire cricketer when the first world war began alletson joined the royal garrison artillery where he served from 1914 to 1919 afterwards he ended his long association with welbeck and became a miner working at manton colliery until after the second world war inevitably he continued to play cricket and for many years the manton colliery team contained the player who had briefly been the most famous cricketer in the world in later years he captained the team too his father who had been so influential died at the age of 80 in 1934 when he retired shortly before his death he had worked on the welbeck estate for 62 years the 1939 register taken on the outbreak of the war records that alletson was by then a colliery deputy below he remained friends with many of his former nottinghamshire team mates particularly john gunn and was still in contact with them in the 1950s in later years arthritis of the hips confined him to his house and he could only move around with some difficulty the bat with which he scored his famous 189 remained hanging above his fireplace embed from getty images alletson in may 1961 holding the bat with which he scored his 189 and which he kept above his fireplace he died on 5 july 1963 at the age of 79 just over three years after his wife in an obituary written for the cricketer john arlott wrote that alletson stands high in the minor mythology of cricket alongside others who had but a short burst of glory such as arthur collins cecil tyson or robert fowler arlott said none of them had any consistent influence on the game but all had hours of greatness that remain brief but vivid flashes in cricket history share this share on reddit opens in new window reddit print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on threads opens in new window threads share on x opens in new window x share on bluesky opens in new window bluesky like loading 1 comment the remarkable life of snuffy browne 14 october 2020 25 june 2025 old ebor 1900s cricket 1910s cricket 1920s cricket barbados british guiana cricket cricket and race cyril browne googly harrison college intercolonial tournament joseph veerasawmy snuffy browne spartan cricket club west indies west indies tour of england 1923 wrist spin allan browne arthur somerset barbados bernard bosanquet british guiana ca browne chester allan browne clapham ramblers cr browne cyril browne cyril rutherford browne george challenor googly harrison college intercolonial tournament ja veerasawmy john veerasawmy joseph veerasawmy kojo thompson learie constantine middle temple percy goodman philip nathaniel browne pn browne snuffy browne spartan cricket club surrey west indies snuffy browne probably in 1928 image the complete record of west indian test cricketers 1991 by bridgette lawrence and ray goble many years ago a west indies cricketer moved to england to study law and to play club cricket he was a devastating bowler and attacking batsman a star for the test team a man whose captaincy ambitions were severely limited owing to the racism in west indian cricket and a man who later in life became involved in politics at first sight this looks like the well known story of learie constantine but in this case we are talking not about constantine but an earlier star cyril browne known generally as snuffy browne played for the west indies between 1911 and 1930 like constantine he dominated matches like constantine he was far more than just a cricketer yet during his lifetime he was never as famous as constantine nor has he attracted the same interest among cricket writers and historians but in many ways browne s story challenges assumptions about race class and cricket in the west indies during the early twentieth century cyril rutherford browne was born on 8 october 1890 in robert s tenantry st michael barbados the fourth son of philip browne and his wife josephine pilgrim his father was originally a mechanical engineer and a contractor but later became a merchant two of cyril s brothers also became well known his eldest brother philip nathaniel was a barrister who studied at the middle temple in london between 1893 and 1896 he also established a successful jewellery business in barbados he was to prove hugely influential in cyril s life his other brother chester allan known as allan was closer to cyril in age being only two years older than him and shared his talent on the cricket field a third brother became a government ophthalmologist but details are scarce about him allan and cyril were educated at combermere school before moving to harrison college modelled on eton college in england harrison college catered for the barbados elite this perhaps indicates how prosperous the browne family were other alumni included the future west indies batsman george challenor and the hugely influential future england captain pelham warner cyril browne attended from around 1904 until 1910 at this time most pupils at harrison were white there were few black families in barbados sufficiently wealthy to afford the school s fees cyril and allan therefore would have been very much in a minority harrison college barbados image old harrisonian society sport was very important at harrison college and it had a strong cricket team in which both cyril and allan played the school team took part in the local competition comprehensively covered each season by the barbados cricket annual browne was viewed as something of a cricketing prodigy he spent his first two and a half years in the school s second eleven which he captained before his promotion to the first eleven by which time his brother had left school after his first full season the 1907 08 barbados cricket annual described him as a bowler of certainly high and remarkable merit who is the genuine stuff that baffles the best men when well set we look forward to him as the island s rising star he topped both the batting and bowling averages for the team the author of the harrison college section of the annual said that browne was their best batsman and bowler and undoubtedly a representative bowler at the present time additionally he was near the top of the batting and bowling averages for the whole island already then browne must have been close to selection for the barbados team many former harrison pupils went on to play for the island including allan who made his first class debut for barbados in september 1907 but browne continued to develop his bowling in the 1907 08 season he began to bowl googlies the delivery was still relatively new having come to prominence when bernard bosanquet used it with some success in test cricket in 1904 and 1905 when the south african team that toured england in 1907 included four googly bowlers the delivery became part of the cricketing mainstream therefore browne was very much at the forefront of those who adopted googly bowling early on along with players such as kent s douglas carr or the australian test bowler h v horden in an interview with london s illustrated sporting and dramatic news in september 1912 he revealed that he began to practise googlies at the age of seventeen and said that his bowling transformation was partly influenced by the barbados first class cricketer percy goodman who had toured england with the west indies teams of 1900 and 1906 although he gave no details of what this influence might have involved percy goodman pictured in 1900 helped browne to develop his googly image wikipedia what makes this slightly remarkable is that no googly bowlers had come to the west indies by that date so browne was working blind goodman may possibly have seen it bowled in england in 1906 and 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