Fred Root
Fred Root was born in Derbyshire on April 16th 1890. He had occupations including cricketer and professional athlete.
Fred Root
Fred Root
Fred Root
Fred Root
Fred Root
Fred Root
Fred Root
Fred Root
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Root has to be the best English cricketer of the twentieth century who was never a Cricketer of the Year.
ReplyDeleteThe way he starred in a dreadful Worcestershire team that won only twenty games and lost 109 between 1923 and 1929 is the most extreme case of a “one-man team” in sport. He would have been as certain as can be to have been a Cricketer of the Year in 1926, as I intend to discuss on my blog, but a special portrait of Jack Hobbs meant there were no ordinary Cricketers of the Year.
England erred badly not taking him to Australia in 1924/1925: Fred Root was very much the sort of bowler who would have done well on the cast-iron Australian wickets of the 1920s, and with Tate having the support he needed they might have won two or three close Tests that were lost.