1. Thomas George Wass was a Nottinghamshire cricketer, a bowler best remembered, alongside Albert Hallam, for bowling that gave Nottinghamshire a brilliant County Championship win in 1907.
13 Facts About Tom Wass
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Tall and solidly built, Tom Wass had a highly rhythmic run-up that allowed him to be, in his prime, fast through the air.
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Tom Wass had a very difficult slower ball that on his best days caught many batsmen unaware.
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Tom Wass began his career in local cricket but became a professional for Edinburgh Academicals and Liverpool.
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Qualified by residence, Tom Wass was offered a place on the Lancashire staff but declined, yet he still took some time to establish himself in a Nottinghamshire side that was in the late 1890s exceedingly weak in bowling and it was never understood why he was given so little to do when he finally broke into the team in the last game against Lancashire.
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In 1901, apart from one match on a sticky wicket against a weak Derbyshire eleven, Tom Wass was so disappointing he was dropped from the side.
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Tom Wass took 58 wickets at the contemporaneously high cost of 29.72.
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In 1903, despite numerous soft pitches, Tom Wass was less effective, taking 76 wickets, though this was frequently attributed to the extreme placidity of the Trent Bridge pitches in fine weather.
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Still, in 1904, though overworked in unfavourable conditions, Tom Wass appeared for the Players at Kennington Oval, which was to remain one of only two appearances he ever made in a representative match.
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In 1907 Tom Wass opened with something even more sensational: taking 6 wickets for 3 runs against the Marylebone Cricket Club after two blank days.
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Tom Wass was chosen in the thirteen for the First Test against South Africa at Lord's in 1907 but left out of the final eleven.
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In 1908, although Hallam declined owing to rheumatism in his right shoulder, Tom Wass remained at his best and took sixteen for 103 in a day against Essex.
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The wet summer of 1912 was disappointing, with the wickets more helpful than ever: Tom Wass took fifty fewer wickets than in 1907.