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that he felt he knew every shot jessop had played c b fry who had been dropped from the england team earlier in the series but watched this game later wrote how jessop let himself loose like a catapult at the bowling and scattered it to smithereens if ever an innings ought to have been filmed that was the one harry altham in his hugely influential history of cricket published several times since 1926 called jessop s century one of the most famous innings of all history even in 2019 simon wilde in england the biography described it as one of the most brilliant centuries ever made for england so how good was it trumble without question was one of australia s great bowlers and to survive against him while scoring so quickly in the conditions that prevailed was some achievement saunders was not quite in the same class but had favourable conditions and a questionable bowling action and troubled everyone before jessop took him apart these two bowled all but nine of the overs faced by england armstrong was little more than accurate and noble another excellent bowler delivered five overs for 11 runs amid the carnage in fact the 1902 australian team even now perhaps remains one of the strongest of all time so jessop s runs were scored against a good attack in difficult conditions additionally england faced certain defeat when he came in so he changed the game completely on the other hand without runs from jackson and hirst it would all have been in vain it was not one of those innings in which someone played a lone hand and with the series gone england were playing only for pride yet very few of the fastest test centuries have been played in circumstances of great adversity often but not always such innings occur when a bowling attack has already been broken only a few such as brendon mccullum s 54 ball hundred against australia the fastest test century of all in 2015 16 or roy frederick s 71 ball century against the same opposition in 1975 76 broke the opposition in the same way as jessop but maybe just maybe the particular circumstances surrounding jessop s still famous innings the match situation the favourable conditions for bowlers the events of the series the question marks over his ability and the fact he had been dropped for manchester make it not just one of the fastest but also one of the best 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 leave a comment neither successful nor happy the reputation of c b fry 3 april 2023 28 march 2026 old ebor 1900s cricket 1910s cricket captaincy cb fry cricket england sussex test selection test selectors the ashes 1902 the ashes 1909 triangular tournament abe bailey cb fry england frank woolley fry s magazine hampshire life worth living ranjitsinhji selectors sussex the ashes 1902 the ashes 1909 tiger smith triangular tournament writers the three captains of the 1912 triangular tournament left to right frank mitchell south africa c b fry england and s e gregory australia image illustrated sporting and dramatic news 11 may 1912 even with various caveats and qualifications there is little doubt that the list of achievements by c b fry is impressive a noted scholar in his youth cricket and football for england a joint world record in athletics blues in three sports from oxford university nor were these his only interests he dabbled in writing politics and various other spheres albeit with varied levels of success he also had interest in the stage he made an impact at oxford as the prince of morocco in the merchant of venice albeit more for his enthusiastic rendition of the line oh hell than his acting ability and was later fascinated by hollywood expressing interest in appearing in film yet there is a lingering air of dissatisfaction about his life he came across as vain arrogant and self centred while later in life he suffered from serious mental health problems and he had a questionable relationship with the truth as can be seen in his autobiography life worth living often wildly exaggerating his feats for all the praise given in later years to his all round sporting credentials he never became part of the cricketing establishment in the same way as contemporaries like pelham warner or f s jackson partly this may have been connected to his prolonged spell of mental illness in the 1920s for example harry foster an old oxford team mate wrote to gilbert jessop in 1932 that he did not see fry much anymore because he was odd but there were other reasons some of them were sporting but others were likely connected to his unconventional politics and personal beliefs part of fry s problem was that when he was part of the cricketing establishment he made a bit of a mess of it this can be seen in his patchy record as a captain despite being one of the few men to be undefeated as england captain he was not convincing in the role if he turned himself from an ordinary batter into an outstanding one through analysis and hard work he never managed the same with leadership at oxford his proficiency at sport meant that he was awarded the captaincy of the university football athletics and cricket teams for his final two years winning one and losing one of his matches against cambridge in each of the three sports but at university level in the 1890s captaincy was as much a social role as a tactical one and he had little impact on any of his teams after leaving oxford he showed little appetite for cricket captaincy he generally played under ranjitsinhji for sussex and under archie maclaren for england concentrating purely on establishing himself as a top class batter when fry was appointed sussex captain for the 1904 season after ranjitsinhji resigned owing to other commitments the county dropped from second to sixth in the county championship and over the following seasons never challenged for the title as they had around the turn of the century the fault was not especially that of the new captain the team had struggled for many years with a weak bowling attack and the loss of ranjitsinhji between 1905 and 1907 was a heavy blow however his relationship with his professionals was strained when he was just an ordinary member of the team he viewed them largely as a supporting act that should not distract from his achievements for example he had forced joe vine his opening partner to become a very defensive player and had once admonished him for hitting three fours in one over he told me plainly that it was my job to stay there and leave that sort of cricket to him when fry took over he rarely took the time and perhaps did not know how to inspire or encourage them sometimes he even deliberately did the opposite for example making robert relf go in as nightwatchman one evening in 1907 when he had already changed to make a quick getaway for an evening out in canterbury a bigger problem was that he was often absent from the team owing to his many other interests leading to an unsettled side a ruptured achilles tendon in the second game of the 1906 season put him out of the team after two games and restricted him in 1907 by 1908 he appeared to have such little interest in playing for sussex that it was picked upon by the press and there were frequent rumours he was going to retire while he had a legitimate excuse in that his time was taken up by the need to secure funding to keep the ts mercury running he was still the county captain but seemed unwilling either to resign or to commit to the club the disharmony surrounding him meant that his spell as sussex captain was not a success it may not be a coincidence that he was never hampshire s official captain after moving there in 1909 although he performed the role several times as a stand in given his reputation and generally certain place in the side fry was often touted as a possible england captain after a couple of occasions where he missed out he was invited to lead the mcc team in australia for the 1911 12 ashes series but his reputation was damaged further by this episode he took weeks to decide whether to accept which was not ideal from the prospective captain the financial aspect of touring as an amateur was unappealing and he was not keen to leave the mercury for so long and there was a backlash when a fry endorsed appeal was launched by the field to raise money to keep the mercury running and free him up to tour this attracted a huge amount of criticism and it generated little money fry eventually asked field to end its campaign and he withdrew from the team it was an embarrassing episode fry s only experience as england captain came the following summer during the triangular tournament played between england australia and south africa although past his best as a player fry was well positioned to lead england as he had been a keen supporter of abe bailey who had been pushing for such a competition to take place since 1908 if the press questioned whether fry was the best man to lead england at the age of 40 his association with bailey and the newly formed icc made him the ideal ambassador even so the mcc appeared hesitant and if we can believe fry only offered him the role for the first test fry s version he replied that he would only accept if given the role for the whole summer lord harris upon reading his letter exclaimed i think this fellow fry is right as usual it is a questionable account nevertheless fry led the team all summer and in the end was vindicated when england won the tournament but this was not a particularly great achievement the south african team was horribly weak and the australian team barely representative after six leading players pulled out in a dispute with their board anything other than an english win in those circumstances would have been unlikely but fry did not impress on the field he batted particularly nervously throughout the tournament and seemed unhappy at several dismissals and the pressure clearly got to him the england wicket keeper tiger smith later recalled that he missed two easy catches in the first game and took himself to the outfield away from the action in embarrassment nor were the press enamoured with his leadership he was criticised for not bowling frank woolley england s most dangerous bowler in wet conditions against australia at lord s although he later claimed the decision was tactical to prevent the australians seeing woolley s bowling in a match certain to be drawn and later in the tournament his delay in using woolley against south africa at the oval was judged to be a tactical error by the time of the decisive final game against australia fry s relationship with spectators was at rock bottom he was booed loudly at the toss for his part in a delayed start he considered conditions unfit when the australian captain wanted to play and batted particularly poorly in the first innings however australia collapsed to the bowling of woolley he was observed according the 1984 biography by clive ellis performing a handstand when a wicket fell in england s second innings he scored a dour and chancy but important 79 tiger smith recalled many years later that fry seemed unaware during his innings how bad conditions were he was batting too well and it was the professionals in the team who realised england s best chance of an easy win was to get out quickly and bowl fry was critical of their approach but they were proven right australia once more collapsed to woolley although fry again behaved oddly he was heard to shout for george hirst to take a catch when the ball went in the air but hirst was not in the team england won the game by 244 runs but fry refused to come out onto the balcony when the spectators were cheering for him remembering his treatment on the first day as it happened this was his final test and he ended his career never having lost a test as captain but he had been an unconvincing leader even so fry was briefly a candidate to lead england during the disastrous 1921 summer when he was 50 years old but it was not his tactical skill that appealed the desperate selectors were thrashing about for answers against an overwhelmingly superior australian team and fry s name promoted warm feelings of nostalgia and romanticism the revival of his claims betrayed selectorial incompetence and showed their lack of awareness of what test cricket had become in 1921 if there were question marks over fry s captaincy there were even bigger ones over his role as a test selector owing to the way that committees were composed fry was a selector several times in 1899 and 1902 he was part of the committee through being one of the first amateurs picked for the england team in 1909 and 1912 in the latter season as both chairman of selectors and england captain he was a permanent selector as ever fry was eager to inflate his importance in life worth living for example he claimed not very convincingly that in 1899 he unwittingly had the casting vote in choosing archie maclaren to replace w g grace as england captain in his version of the selection meeting for the second test fry arrived late and when he was asked by grace if he thought maclaren should play he said yes without knowing that the others had been deadlocked over whether grace or maclaren should be captain fry believed that he therefore was the man who ended grace s test career but as usual we cannot trust fry and it would have been perfectly possible for both maclaren and grace to play the england team for the first test of the 1902 ashes back row g h hirst a a lilley w h lockwood l c braund w rhodes j t tyldesley front row c b fry f s jackson a c maclaren captain k s ranjitsinhji g l jessop image archie 1981 by michael down fry s next experience in the role came in 1902 as in 1899 he was co opted onto the panel through being one of the first amateurs picked but in retelling his role in that test series fry was aware that the selectors had been heavily criticised for their negative influence over that summer and so attempted to absolve himself from any part in the mistakes as it happened he was only a selector for the first two tests he was a late replacement in the third game and was dropped for the final two after scoring 0 0 1 and 4 in the series but rather than explain this fry chose to portray himself as the lone voice of sanity that summer he was critical of the selectors tendency change the team owing to the unsettling effect on the players as he was dropped this is hardly a surprising view but he emphasised how correct archie maclaren the captain was in his opinion that gilbert jessop dropped for the fourth test before 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