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Australia
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Albert Trott
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Albert Trottjpg
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Right-handed batsman (RHB)
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Right-arm slow
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5
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228
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3800
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0/2
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85
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948
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26
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1500
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2
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0
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8/43
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4/0
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375
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10,696
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1948
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8/44
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164
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35,318
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1,674
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2109
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131
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41
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10/42
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452/0
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11 January
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1895
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4 April
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1899
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(born
6 February 1873 in
Melbourne , died
July 30 1914 in
Willesden Green, Middlesex ) was an
Australia n and
English Cricketer . He was named
Wisden Cricketer Of The Year in 1899.
Trott's story represents one of the great enigmas of
Australia n
Cricket history. He burst onto the
Test scene against
England in
Adelaide, Australia in 1894-95 with an amazing debut which included taking
8 For 43 with his slinging, round-arm
Deliveries and scoring 38 and 72 (both
Not Out ) with the
Bat . He followed this up in the next match in
Sydney, Australia by scoring 85 (again not out), though he was strangely not thrown the ball by captain
George Giffen . Albert’s brother, G.H.S. Trott, was named captain of the
Australian Team which toured England in
1896 , though Albert’s form (which saw him
Average 102.5 with the bat in the Test series against England) was, remarkably, insufficient to merit tour selection.
Despite his omission from the team, Trott sailed to England independently as a ''novus homo'' and, with the help of the Australian cricketer and Test umpire
Pavilion , bludgeoning M.A. (Monty) Noble out of the ground in
1899 . He was widely acknowledged as the finest all-round cricketer on the planet. A true student of the game, Trott’s bowling relied less on pace than it did on guile and
Spin ; he rarely bowled two balls alike. Trott was a dynamo in the field, with the ball seldom escaping his commodious clutch. He regularly turned matches for Middlesex with his powerful hitting.
However, from 1901 or 1902, Trott declined abruptly because, owing to a rapid increase in his weight and loss of mobility, he could not bowl the very fast ball that was so deadly in his early years. His haul of of 1906 did his batting reach the levels of his early years with Middlesex.
Trott’s ability to entertain never left him. His popularity rose as he enjoyed regular , Trott wrote his
Will on the back of a
Laundry ticket, leaving his
Wardrobe and £4 to his landlady. Shortly afterwards, he shot himself. In today’s cricket of high money, high performance and high scandal, few players have been able to provide the high thrills and high entertainment which A. E. Trott did, some 100 years ago.
