jackpot jim wrote:RyderCourtney wrote:jackpot jim wrote:Bag The Points wrote:Keep hearing stories about a seriously good bowler from Strathalbyn called Perry Jones. Does anyone remember playing with or against him ?
My mail is he was extremely quick, could move the ball both ways and really made it talk.
Was at his peak through the 1970s.
I faced him a few times in the early 80s and you r right btp, very quick and moved the ball both ways off the pitch. Some of his bowling feats are legendary including taking all 10 wickets in an innings, ALL CLEANED BOWLED
in a final and strangely enough, Strathalbyn still lost.
Dominated country carnivals thru the 70s and early 80s.
1974 - 54 wickets
1977 - 47 wickets @ 5.68
1978 - 36 wickets @ 6.44
1980 - 55 wickets @ 5.12
1982 - 36 wickets @ 6.02
1985 - 39 wickets @ 5.79
quite remarkables stats those.
Was only discussing him on the weekend. The old man faced him a few times and said he was probably the one bowler that when he edged the ball to the keeper he was happy to walk ala Gilchrist, Scary fast and especially with no helmets in the day.
Also said that he killed a man whilst bowling. Not sure if it was true but he seemed pretty certain he did.
He ALMOST killed a batsman with a bouncer, heard that the fellow stopped breathing and turned blue before being revived on the pitch.
Apparently it shook Perry up as it would anyone and he rarely bowled bouncers from that point on, only to top class batsmen that had hung around too long. Thankfully he kept the ball pitched up to me at all times and i just copped a hammering on the thigh as i was silly enough not to wear a thigh pad back then and paid the penalty of hardly being able to walk the following days.
Perrys records speak for themself,1232 wkts in club games ,650 wkts at country carnivals,10 hat-tricks,6 or 7 tons with the bat,inc 4 tons in 5 inns with 34 runs off one 8-ball over,he also made 145no off only 14 overs in one game,Perry took 13 wkts in one GF inc 4/1 off one over, won 9 flags,a record 77 wkts at 6.17 in the 74-75 season,also 64 wkts in 71-72,for 20 yrs in a row Perry won Straths bowling agg,won 12 assoc bowling agg trophies,opened the assocc bowling for 20 yrs,6 teams of the year for country cricket,a committee member of Strath and the Assocc for 40 odd yrs and is a life member of both,can still be seen prepairing wickets at Strath.In 2007 Perry was named statewide winner of the XXXX Gold "Good as Gold" award for services to cricket. A very fast bowler in his time was Perry Jones and a great man also, would have to be the best country cricketer by far.
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