The Archive · 1934

A County Cricketer

It Mr, M, Crawley had managed to visit Shanghai later in the year he would have been able to follow up hig "substitute" innings on the stage with a real innings on the pith where he has already ae-quired some fame in England, He is also the type of bat which Shanghai likes to "see. In other words he wastes no. time and gets down to it. At Southend old pavilion. gos sips still talk of that, 175 which, going in first for Kent in the second innings, he hit up against Essex out of 257' scored while he was at the wickets, That was in 1990. He reached the century in 83 minutes and hit two sixes and twenty-six fours, This innings followed within the same week a sparkling firstein knock of 74 at Hastings against Sussex, Mr. Crawley, after leaving Harlow for which "School ho played agains Eton, obtained his blue at Oxford Jan in the three matches in which appeared against Cambridge his outstanding performance. was 1028 when, after making a "duck" in the first ' innings he made 101 runs in the second, Oxford had been left with 265 runs to make in two hours and a quarter, With Mr. A, Barber, Mr. Crawley, put on 138 for the second wicket hour, That laid the foundation of a brilliant Oxford victory ty five wickets,

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