Trevor Bailey
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3 December 1923 Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England |
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| Died | 10 February 2011 (aged 87) Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England |
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| Nickname | Barnacle, The Boil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 342) | 11 June 1949 v New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 13 February 1959 v Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1946–1967 | Essex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1949–1964 | MCC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1947–1948 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 14 December 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trevor Edward Bailey CBE (3 December 1923 – 10 February 2011) was an England Test cricketer, cricket writer and broadcaster.
An all-rounder, Bailey was known for his skilful but unspectacular batting. As the BBC reflected in his obituary: "His stubborn refusal to be out normally brought more pleasure to the team than to the spectators." This defensive style of play brought him the first of his nicknames, "Barnacle Bailey", but he was a good enough cricketer that he has retrospectively been calculated to have been the leading all-rounder in the world for most of his international career.
In later life, Bailey wrote a number of books and commentated on the game. He was particularly known for the 26 years he spent working for the BBC on the Test Match Special radio programme.
Bailey was born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. His father was a civil servant in the Admiralty. Bailey grew up in modest affluence: "The family lived in [a] semi-detached house at Leigh-on-Sea, complete with a live-in maid on 12 shillings (60p) a week; they did not, however, own a car." He first learned to play cricket on the beach.
He won sporting scholarships to attend Alleyn Court Prep School, where he learned cricket from former Essex captain Denys Wilcox, and then Dulwich College. In his first year, aged just 14, he was selected for Dulwich's First XI cricket team. He came top of the school's batting and bowling averages in 1939 and 1940, became captain in 1941, and was top of the averages again in his last year at Dulwich, 1942.
He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Marines after leaving school; he was "not enamoured of war, and won some reputation as defending counsel in court martials". Though World War II was still in progress, he received an early discharge in January 1945 to return to Alleyn Court Prep School as a schoolmaster. He subsequently attended St John's College, Cambridge for two years, reading English and History and graduating in 1948. He won Blues for both cricket and football both years, 1947 and 1948. The Cambridge football team included Doug Insole, whom Bailey would later succeed as captain of Essex County Cricket Club.
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