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There are two references early in the "Becoming Great" section to "fiery"/"fiery and untrue" Oval wickets. My understanding was that the Oval pitches, though fast, were truer than most at this period. JH 18:10, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I've now done some research on CricketArchive, and the following were Surrey's scores in their matches at The Oval in 1892 and 1893. (I've looked at Surrey's scores, since their strong attack would have tended to reduce their opponents' score, whereas their own batsmen would have had to face both strong and weak attacks during the course of a season.) 1892: 115 & 300, 267 & 162, 210 & 172-2, 326 & 41-2, 245 & 189, 413, 129 & 159, 229 & 71-2, 211 & 65-0. 1893: 122 & 226, 181 & 113, 180 & 19-3, 356 & 10-0, 100 & 141, 325 & 111, 356 & 118-8, 146 & 202, 288, 290 & 4-0. By the standards of the time, these seem like quite respectable scores. Over those two seasons, Surrey were never dismissed for under 100 in their home fixtures. JH 20:34, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Richardson first played for Surrey, his native county, in 1892, and showed promise with some superb performances in minor matches, notably fifteen wickets against Essex. Cricketarchive has no record of this. Of course, if it happened in a non first-class fixture then it might well not have been included. However he did take 15 wickets against Essex in 1894, and I wonder if someone could have got the year wrong? JH 18:28, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I hope to do some work on improving the article, now that it's been flagged up as needing it. However I'm about to go away on holiday fot ten days, so it won't happen till I come back. And there's a risk that by then I may have forgotten all about it. JH (talk page) 17:27, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
What about creating a page for the up and coming cricketer from Leicester also called Tom Richardson? google 'richardson whirlwind ton' or search for 'countesthorpe cc' to find his stats. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.178.153.193 (talk) 20:04, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I googled as suggested. He is clearly very promising, but it doesn't look at this very early stage in what hopefully will prove to be a distinguished career that he has yet played in a first-class or List A match, which is the normal requirement for being viewed as "notable" in Wikipedia terms. If you know differently, then please let me know, and I'll see about creating an article for him. JH (talk page) 20:23, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]