Ornate certificate frame damaged
This very ornate frame had been damaged over the decades. The frame, decorated with carved cricket bats and balls, contains a record of the 1928/29 English Cricket Tour of Australia.
Certificate frame – before repairs
Frame repairs completed
For the cricket buffs:
The 1928/29 English Team won the series 4-1 and thus retained the Ashes.
The MCC touring party was:
- Percy Chapman (Kent) (captain)
- Jack White (Somerset) (vice-captain)
- Douglas Jardine (Surrey)
- Jack Hobbs (Surrey)
- Herbert Sutcliffe (Yorkshire)
- Wally Hammond (Gloucestershire)
- Patsy Hendren (Middlesex)
- Ernest Tyldesley (Lancashire)
- Phil Mead (Hampshire)
- Maurice Leyland (Yorkshire)
- Maurice Tate (Sussex)
- George Geary (Leicestershire)
- George Duckworth (Lancashire)(wicketkeeper)
- Les Ames (Kent) (wicketkeeper)
- Harold Larwood (Nottinghamshire)
- “Tich” Freeman (Kent)
- Sam Staples (Nottinghamshire)
- Sir Frederick Toone (Yorkshire)(Manager)
Leicestershire County Cricket Club’s sole representative on the tour, George Geary, was recorded to have taken:
- 5/35 off 18 overs in the second test
- 3/83 off 31.5 overs in the third test
- 5/105 off 81 overs in the fifth test
(figures according to Wikipedia as at 08/11/2021)
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