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George Geary
George Geary (9 July 1893 in Barwell, Leicestershire, England – 6 March 1981 in Leicester, England) was the greatest cricketer Leicestershire produced before the advent of David Gower and one of the best and hardest-working bowlers of the inter-war period.〔Only Maurice Tate, Fred Root and J.T. Hearne among bowlers of medium pace or above have bowled more balls in a season than Geary’s 8,959 in 1929.〕
==Abilities==
Above medium pace and right-handed, Geary was able to swing the new ball very effectively but relied for most of his success on his amazing persistence and ability to bowl with slight yet well-disguised variations of pace and cut.〔Woodcock, John (editor); Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, 119th edition (1982); p. 1200. ISBN 0356085910〕 He was able to bowl quite incredible numbers of overs on unresponsive pitches, as shown in the last Test of the 1928/1929 Ashes tour, when he bowled an amazing 81 overs on a typical billiard-table Australian wicket in very hot weather.〔See (Most balls bowled in an innings ); note that Geary’s figures are the highest by any bowler of medium pace or above except Fazal Mahmood who was bowling for a team with only two fit bowlers.〕〔See (Maximum temperatures for 086071 Melbourne Regional Office in 1929 ). Note that the innings where Geary bowled 81 overs was largely on a day that reached 〕 Because he was tall and very solidly built, he was able both to get bounce and to bowl the long spells required for success in Australian conditions which destroyed the reputations of all English bowlers of slighter build.
Geary was also a capable lower order batsman who usually relied upon hitting, but could get runs with a quiet, if unstylish determination when they were desperately needed. Though he never scored a thousand runs - his best aggregates were 923 in 1929 and 900 in 1925 - his runs were frequently of great value to a county that never possessed any of the exceptionally high-class batsmen other counties could command in Geary's heyday. Owing to his considerable height and reach, Geary was an excellent slip catcher and, despite all the bowling he had to do, almost always his county's leading fielder.
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