Arthur Mailey

Personal information

Full name

Arthur Alfred Mailey

Born

3 January 1886
Zetland, New South Wales, Australia

Died

31 December 1967 (aged 81)
Kirrawee, New South Wales, Australia

Batting style

Right-hand batsman

Bowling style

Right-arm leg break and googly

Role

Bowler

International information

National side

Australia

Test debut (cap 108)

17 December 1920 v England

Last Test

14 August 1926 v England

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1912–1930

New South Wales

Career statistics

Competition	Test	First-class
Matches	21	158
Runs scored	222	1530
Batting average	11.10	12.33
100s/50s	0/0	0/3
Top score	46*	66
Balls bowled	6119	35541
Wickets	99	779
Bowling average	33.91	24.09
5 wickets in innings	6	61
10 wickets in match	2	16
Best bowling	9/121	10/66
Catches/stumpings	14/–	157/–

Source: CricketArchive, 26 January 2009

Arthur Alfred Mailey (3 January 1886 in Zetland, New South Wales – 31 December 1967 in Kirrawee, New South Wales) was an Australian cricketer who played in 21 Test matches between 1920 and 1926.

Mailey used leg-break and googly bowling, taking 99 Test wickets, including 36 in the 1920-21 Ashes series. In the second innings of the fourth Test at Melbourne, he took nine wickets for 121 runs, which is still the Test record for an Australian bowler.

Cover of Mailey sketchbook

In first-class cricket at Cheltenham during the 1921 tour, he took all ten Gloucestershire wickets for 66 runs in the second innings. His 1958 autobiography was accordingly titled Ten for 66 and All That (an allusion to the humorous book of English history, 1066 and All That).

He also holds the record for the most expensive bowling analysis in first-class cricket. Bowling for New South Wales at Melbourne in 1926-27 as Victoria scored the record first-class total of 1107, Mailey bowled 64 eight-ball overs, did not manage a maiden and took 4 for 362.^[1] He said that his figures would have been much better had not three sitters been dropped off his bowling -- "two by a man in the pavilion wearing a bowler hat" and one by an unfortunate team-mate whom he consoled with the words, "I'm expecting to take a wicket any day now."

Beginning his working life as a labourer, he became a talented writer and artist. Between 1920 and 1953, he published a number of booklets of cartoons of cricketers of his time.^[2]

"Someone dubbed him the man who bowled like a millionaire, and how true it was! Arthur's objective was to take wickets, and the spending of runs in the process bothered him little. For a relatively small man Arthur had abnormally large hands, soft as silk to the touch, and he once told me he didn't know what it was to have tired or sore fingers". Don Bradman^[3]

References

↑ "Victoria v New South Wales 1926-27". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
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↑ Sir Donald Bradman, introduction to E.W. Swanton, Swanton in Australia with MCC 1946-75, Fontana, 1977

External links

Player profile: Arthur Mailey from ESPNcricinfo
Player profile: Arthur Mailey from CricketArchive
Mailey, Alfred Arthur (Australian Dictionary of Biography)
Brief film of Mailey bowling on YouTube (5:47 to 6:07)

Australian first-class cricket season leading wicket-takers (1900–01 to 1949–50)

1900–01: Saunders/Travers 1901–02: Braund 1902–03: Saunders 1903–04: Rhodes 1904–05: Collins 1905–06: Garnsey 1906–07: Garnsey 1907–08: Crawford/Saunders 1908–09: O'Connor 1909–10: Saunders 1910–11: Whitty 1911–12: Foster 1912–13: Massie 1913–14: Kelleway 1914–15: Ironmonger 1915–16: – 1916–17: – 1917–18: – 1918–19: McDonald 1919–20: Hendry 1920–21: Mailey 1921–22: McDonald 1922–23: Mailey 1923–24: Hartkopf/Williams 1924–25: Tate 1925–26: Grimmett 1926–27: Williams 1927–28: Grimmett 1928–29: Grimmett 1929–30: Grimmett 1930–31: Grimmett 1931–32: Grimmett 1932–33: O'Reilly 1933–34: Grimmett 1934–35: Fleetwood-Smith 1935–36: Ward 1936–37: Fleetwood-Smith/Ward 1937–38: Fleetwood-Smith/O'Reilly 1938–39: Fleetwood-Smith 1939–40: Grimmett 1940–41: O'Reilly 1941–42: O'Reilly 1942–43: – 1943–44: – 1944–45: – 1945–46: Tribe 1946–47: Wright 1947–48: Mankad 1948–49: Johnson

Leading run-scorers: 1850–51 to 1899–00 1900–01 to 1949–50 1950–51 to 1999–00 2000–01 onwards Leading wicket-takers: 1850–51 to 1899–00 1900–01 to 1949–50 1950–51 to 1999–00 2000–01 onwards

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