436:. 1909, a summer as wet as 1907, was very disappointing: although Hallam was back to full fitness, Wass had his worst record since 1905, but in the following two years he recovered his form, and when helped by the wicket remained as formidable as ever despite having lost much of his former pace. The wet summer of 1912 was disappointing, with the wickets more helpful than ever: Wass took fifty fewer wickets than in 1907. Then in 1913 he failed to reach 100 wickets in a full season for the first time in ten years. 1914, when Wass was handicapped by injury and missed seven games, saw him fall further to 69 wickets at his highest average since 1903. After the war he appeared only once, in
322:, and bowled the team to seven victories as against five in the three season from 1897 to 1899. In 1901, apart from one match on a sticky wicket against a weak Derbyshire eleven, Wass was so disappointing he was dropped from the side. He took 58 wickets at the contemporaneously high cost of 29.72. On the wet wickets of 1902 Wass became one of the most difficult bowlers in the game, capturing 140 wickets at 15.89 runs each in all first-class cricket. It remains noteworthy how Wass' bowling was the decisive factor in each Nottinghamshire victory that summer:
428:(MCC) after two blank days. This time wet weather continued almost continuously all summer, allowing Wass and Hallam to dominate match after match to such an extent that they took 298 wickets between them in just nineteen games, of which Nottinghamshire won fifteen and were never defeated. Nobody else bar John Gunn did any serious work, and Gunn took only 25 wickets in seventeen matches in which he bowled.
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558:Pardon, Sydney H, ed. (1904). "Notts Matches".
326:v Sussex at Hove: seven for 19 and five for 22
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472:Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
278:best remembered, alongside
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18:Thomas Wass
661:Categories
444:References
316:Lancashire
308:Derbyshire
295:leg-cutter
259:3 May 2022
63:1873-12-26
488:The Times
320:John Gunn
300:fieldsman
272:cricketer
235:stumpings
168:Top score
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