Who remembers this at Bramall Lane?

[kingston RAWW]

http://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/a...logue-id-2876415/lot-18321795?searchitem=true

 

[Silent Blade]

Hedley Verity as a world class spinner in the 1930s. In 1932 he got 10 wickets for 10 runs in an innings against Nottinghamshire

 

[Trigger Blade]

I don't personally (and you'd need to be close to 90 to have any memory of those days).

Hedley Verity was one of my Dad's boyhood heroes and he always referred to him as Deadly Hedley. My Dad reckoned that Hedley could put a sixpence on a good length and hit it most times with his spinners.

In my back garden practice, I tried to do the same thing. It got me nowhere and I ended up being a wicketkeeper I think Verity was killed in the war.

 

[Silent Blade]

From Wiki

The invasion of Sicily was initially successful until the Allied forces reached the plains outside Catania, where German forces put up strong resistance. The Green Howards, as part of the 15th Brigade, made a night attack on 19 July. However, conditions were more difficult than expected and the brigade came under heavy fire. Verity commanded B Company, which was surrounded in the confusion. Attempting to secure the position, Verity was hit in the chest by shrapnel and had to be left behind as the company retreated. The last order he gave was "keep going".
Severely wounded and subsequently captured by the Germans, Verity was taken to a field hospital and underwent an operation. Taken by boat across the Strait of Messina to Italy, Verity first went to a hospital in Reggio Calabria and was then transported for two days by train to Naples. The German hospital was full, so Verity was sent to the Italian hospital at Caserta. By this stage, Verity was very ill and had another operation to relieve pressure from his rib onto his lung. The operation seemed successful but Verity deteriorated rapidly over the following three days, bleeding heavily. He died on 31 July, and was buried with full military honours. His grave was later moved from the town's cemetery to the military cemetery established by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Several Yorkshire players later visited the grave; some members of the MCC team under Len Hutton's captaincy in 1954–55, including Hutton, journalists and former Yorkshire player Abe Waddington paid tribute at Verity's grave while en route for Australia.

 

[KenMcnaughtsNuts]

half our team from last year, probably.

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

For anyone with an interest in Yorkshire cricket I would highly recommend Alan Hill's biog on the great Hedley Verity. The chapter on his time serving for the Green Howards during the war and ultimately his death on a foreign field is very moving.