Bill Edrich
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William John Edrich DFC (26 March 1916 – 24 April 1986) was a first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), Norfolk, and England.
The Edriches were able to raise a full team of eleven in Norfolk.
Edriches' entire squad defeated Norfolk in a one-day match in 1938.
Life and career
Bill Edrich, an attacking right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler, was born in Lingwood, Norfolk. In his first full season, he was playing first for Norfolk in the Minor Counties at the age of 16, making him a huge success. He scored 1,000 runs before the end of May and made the first of 39 Test match appearances, but with no success. Edrich did not do well in Tests until the final "Timeless Test" of the 1938-1939 tour to South Africa, where his 219 enabled England to reach 654 for five wickets, but the Test was not extended to allow the tourists to board their ship home.
Edrich was subsequently suspended for the 1939 series against the West Indians after being able to successfully complete Test matches. Nevertheless, he was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in the 1940 edition of Wisden. During the 1930s, Edrich played amateur football for Norwich City and Tottenham Hotspur.
Edrich joined the Royal Air Force in which he attained the rank of Squadron Leader while flying as a pilot for RAF Bomber Command. He was involved in a low-level daylight attack by Bristol Blenheim bombers against power stations in the Cologne area on August 12, 1941, according to The Daily Telegraph as "the RAF's most audacious and risky low-level bombing raid." Twelve of the 54 Blenheims sent on the mission were shot down, according to the mission's chief. He was given the DFC for his service in the war. He had "such relief" that he survived the war, and as a result, he loved to party and lived for the day.
He remained a regular in the England team after the Second World War, batting at No. 141. Bowling is often starting at 3 p.m. In the 1946–47 Ashes series, he scored centuries against Australia, two against the South Africans in 1947, two against Australia in 1948, and a final one against New Zealand in 1949. He was "most indifferent to his own safety," a stoic batsman. No bowler is fast enough to hook; no score is too high to defy challenge; and being exposed to Lindwall and Miller's bouncers in 1946–47 and 1948 was deeply bruised.
Edrich's golden years were his best in his career, scoring 3,539 runs in the season and not being overshadowed by Denis Compton's scorching of 3,816. Compton's and Edrich's counts remain the highest ever in an English cricket season, with the reduction in the number of first-class matches appearing unlikely to be overtaken. Edrich was also a wicket taker in the same season, taking 67 wickets in addition to his runs.
Edrich's Test career lasted until the Ashes tour of 1954-1955, but he played less often after 1950, when he appeared to have no answer to the West Indian spinners Sonny Ramadhin and Alf Valentine. When England retained the Ashes in Adelaide from 1954–55, they consumed over 56 bottles of champagne and Edrich – the life and soul of any party – scaled the marble pillar in the lounge of Glenelg's Pier Hotel's Marble pillar and sang "Ginger."
Edrich played in 571 first-class matches between 1934 and 1958, scoring 36,985 runs and his highest score of 267 not out. His run total places him 29th on the all-time list. In his 39 Test matches, he scored 2,440 runs for England, with the 219 not out at Durban his highest. A military veteran before the Second World War, he became an amateur, captained Middlesex in 1951 and 1952, then-coach Compton, and remained in sole charge from 1953 to 1957. After retiring from Middlesex, he returned to Norfolk and played Minor County cricket until he was 56, captaining the county until 1971.
Edrich, a popular man who married five times and had two children, Jasper and Justin, was born. On April 24, 1986, he died after a collapse at his Chesham, Buckinghamshire home, aged 70. In his and Denis Compton's honor, the MCC named the two stands at Lord's Cricket Ground at the Nursery End. "It is a dull, functional system that does not do justice to their mercurial skills and indomitable spirits," Colin Bateman, a cricket writer.