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Alec Bannerman

Full Name
Alexander Chalmers Bannerman
Born
21-03-1854 Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died On
September 19, 1924

Major Teams
Australia
Batting Style
Right-hand bat
Bowling Style
Right-arm medium roundarm
Alec Bannerman

Alec Bannerman Biography

When he passed away in September 1924, Wisden remarked: “Alec Bannerman will be remembered as long as cricket is played.” Many spectators who saw him in action voiced similar concerns around his willow-work, fearing that he would continue to bat in the ongoing innings as long as cricket was played.
 
He was nicknamed ‘Barn Door’ for his stout, static, stagnant and stroke-less defence. Brother of the more famous Charles, who gained cricketing immortality by scoring the first ever run and the first ever hundred in Test cricket, Alec was as different from his sibling as possible. While Charles Bannerman brandished every possible stroke, driving through the off with vim and vigour and hitting powerfully through leg, Alec (or Alick, as he was also known) preferred the uncomplicated straight bat, offered with the last breath of life removed from the willow.
 
In his seminal Australian Batsmen, AG Moyes describes the reaction of the crowd to his approach with disturbing imagery: “At times the crowd found him as wearisome to the flesh as fleas in a warm bed.”
 
His fielding was more spectacular. Bannerman first made the Australian side mainly for his brilliance in the field. He stood at mid-off, chasing balls tirelessly, according to Sydney Pardon: “fast, sure … and a wonderfully safe catch”.
 
Bannerman was one of nature’s unadulterated stonewallers, and eschewed every possible risk at the wicket — as also away from it. Indeed, while the rest of that trendsetting Australian XI travelled around the colonies, England and North America to play cricket, they indulged in a business venture, each one of the men a shareholder of the proceeds from the matches. Bannerman was the only one who played for a fixed sum, unwilling to venture into any sort of speculation. He sometimes boosted the assured amount with frill-free perks, on one occasion earning a bonus of £90 for good behaviour.
 
He hated to give his wicket away. In 1890-91, after nearly a dozen years at the top level, he refused to leave when given out caught at the wicket by umpire Denis Cotter in a match against Victoria. This rendered Tom Horan choleric enough to remark, “Some men require to be told half-a-dozen times that they are out before they will move away.”
 
Against WG Grace’s Englishmen at Melbourne in 1891-92, Bannerman batted 195 minutes for 35 and 230 more for 45. And at Sydney, with Australia trailing by 163 runs in the first innings, he came in to bat towards the end of the second day to essay his most famous innings, spending 448 minutes at the wicket for 91. William Attewell sent down 204 balls to him, and he scored from just 5 of them. This was when the crowd was moved to polite barracking, and one poetic sort was moved to recite,
 
“O Bannerman, O Bannerman,
We wish you’d change your manner, man;
We pay our humble tanner, man,
To see a bit of fun.
 
You’re a beggar though to stick it,
But it ain’t our sort of cricket;
They haven’t hit your wicket,
Yet, you haven’t got a run.”
 
Arunabha Sengupta   

Alec Bannerman Batting & Fielding Averages

Career M In R NO HS Avg BF SR 100s 50s 4s 6s Ct St
Test 28 50 1108 2 94 23.08 215 515.3 0 8 73 -- 21 0
ODIs 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
T20s 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
World Cup 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Alec Bannerman Bowling Averages

Career M B R W Avg EC SR 5WI 10WM BBI BBM
Test 28 438 163 4 40.75 2.232 109 0 0 3/111 3/111
ODIs 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
T20s 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
World Cup 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Alec Bannerman Career statistics

Test Debut

Australia v England at Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, January 2, 1879

Last Test

England v Australia at Old Trafford, Manchester, August 24, 1893

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