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Herbert Sutcliffe made his first-class debut for Yorkshire in the 1919 season, during which he and Percy Holmes developed one of county cricket's greatest opening partnerships. After initial success, Sutcliffe had a couple of relatively lean seasons before fulfilling his promise in 1922. In 1924, he made his debut for England in Test cricket and formed a famous Test opening partnership with Jack Hobbs. He enjoyed personal success on the 1924–25 MCC tour of Australia, although England lost the Test series 4–1 to Australia. In the 1926 Ashes series against Australia, Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced a series-winning partnership at The Oval in difficult batting conditions. By the end of the 1927 season, Sutcliffe was one of the world's premier cricketers and was being considered, although he was a professional, for the captaincy of Yorkshire. ==1919: debut season== Sutcliffe joined Yorkshire at the age of 17 in 1912 and had represented the club's 2nd XI but the First World War delayed the start of his first-class career. He was 24 when his chance finally came. In May 1919, he played for the county's 2nd XI against a full-strength 1st XI and did very well, scoring 51 not out. He received a good report in the ''Yorkshire Post'' and never played for the 2nd XI again.〔Hill, p.35.〕 Yorkshire's first County Championship fixture after the war took place on 26 and 27 May at Bristol against Gloucestershire and Sutcliffe, batting at number 6, made his first-class debut. 1919 was the season when two-day games were tried in the championship but were soon perceived to be a failure.〔Birley, p.212.〕 Yorkshire batted first, after losing the toss, and Sutcliffe made 11 in a total of 277 (Roy Kilner 112). Despite that seemingly modest score, Yorkshire won by an innings and 63 runs as Gloucestershire were bowled out twice for 125 and 89.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=CricketArchive )〕 Sutcliffe's next match was his first at Lord's when Yorkshire played MCC in a 3-day match from 29 to 31 May. He did well in the 1st innings, scoring 38 in a total of only 120 but made just 3 in the 2nd innings. The match was drawn.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=CricketArchive )〕 Sutcliffe followed this with his first half-century when he made 67 not out against Cambridge University at Fenner's in a drawn two-day match on 2 and 3 June.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=CricketArchive )〕 After a drawn game against Essex at Leyton, Yorkshire went to Old Trafford for the first post-war Roses Match against Lancashire, Sutcliffe's first appearance in the fixture. Yorkshire were outplayed and lost by 140 runs but Sutcliffe earned a lot of plaudits with a defiant 2nd innings score of 53 in an all-out total of 153.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=CricketArchive )〕 Sutcliffe continued to make progress, notably with a new highest score of 71 against Derbyshire, but he was still batting in the middle order. Veteran Wilfred Rhodes was still opening the innings for Yorkshire alongside Percy Holmes, who had played a few pre-war matches. Finally, in the match against Nottinghamshire at Bramall Lane on 27 and 28 June, Rhodes decided to drop down the order for the 2nd innings and Sutcliffe went in first with Holmes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=CricketArchive )〕 Sutcliffe had a run of indifferent scores after he began to open the innings but finally everything fell into place when Yorkshire played Northamptonshire on 23 and 24 July at Northampton. Yorkshire won the toss and then won the match by an innings and 196 runs. Sutcliffe and Holmes put on 279 for the first wicket with Sutcliffe scoring 145 and Holmes 133. In both cases, it was their highest score to date and Sutcliffe more than doubled his, hitting 21 fours and 1 six in the process.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=CricketArchive )〕 Having scored his maiden century, Sutcliffe immediately made another in the return match against Gloucestershire. But he really came of age and made the grade when he scored 132 against Lancashire at Bramall Lane on 4 and 5 August, sharing another big partnership with Holmes of 253. Holmes made 123. However, the match was drawn.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=CricketArchive )〕 Holmes and Sutcliffe were both awarded their county caps in August 1919.〔Hill, pp.39–40.〕 Sutcliffe created a debut season record〔Frindall, p.180.〕 by scoring 1,839 runs at an average of 44.85 with 5 centuries and a highest score of 174 against Kent at Crabble Athletic Ground in Dover.〔 Holmes did equally well by scoring 1,886 runs at an average of 43.86 with 5 centuries and a highest score of 140.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=CricketArchive )〕 Holmes and Sutcliffe scored 5 centuries each in 1919 and they shared in 5 century partnerships. Their performances were key to Yorkshire winning the championship that season for the 10th time in all.〔 Yorkshire had been hit by a double tragedy in recent years with the deaths of Alonzo Drake (illness) and Major Booth (killed in action during the war) and a rebuilding process was necessary. The success of Holmes and Sutcliffe went a long way towards completing that process. Otherwise, Yorkshire relied mainly on their Edwardian veterans George Herbert Hirst, Wilfred Rhodes, David Denton and wicket-keeper Arthur Dolphin. As always in the era of Lord Hawke, now club president, the team captain was an amateur player and from 1919 to 1921 it was Cecil Burton who filled the role. Other mainstays of the team that Sutcliffe joined were pace bowler Abe Waddington, all-rounder Roy Kilner and seam bowler Emmott Robinson. But it was not a settled team and Yorkshire used a total of 21 players in the 1919 County Championship.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=CricketArchive )〕 As a result of their success in 1919, Percy Holmes and Herbert Sutcliffe were both awarded a Wisden Cricketer of the Year title in 1920.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=CricketArchive )〕 In the accompanying review, ''Wisden'' commented on Sutcliffe's pre-war development and the benefits that both he and Holmes derived from Doughty's coaching. Sutcliffe's "fine driving" was commended but it was noted that "he may not yet be quite so strong in defence". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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