Santall Frederick Image 1 Warwickshire 1921

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Acocks Green, Birmingham born was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler who played for Warwickshire, being very much a regular on the Warwickshire team sheet during the inter-war period. Between 1919 and 1939 he played 496 first class matches for his home County, with only Willie Quaife and Dennis Amiss have represented Warwickshire more often. In 1925 he scored 119 not out against Yorkshire when he and Sanders put on 128 for the last wicket. Outside of County cricket he made four other first class appearances, three came on Sir Theodore Brinckman’s XI tour of Argentina in 1937-38 and one was for Sir Lindsay Parkinson’s XI against The West Indies tourists of 1933, when he scored 45 and 47 not out in a low-scoring match, and he scored 1,628 runs that season, averaging 46.

In 500 first class matches Santall scored a total of 17,730 runs at an average of 24.93, passing 1,000 runs in a season on seven occasions. His best seasonal total came in 1933 when he scored 1,727 runs at 46.67. During that season he produced the highest score of his career, a knock of 201 not out against Northamptonshire at Peterborough, an innings that took just 165 minutes, the best of 21 career hundreds, making 173 in two hours before lunch. He also made 84 in the astonishing match against Hampshire at Edgbaston in 1922, who won by 155 runs despite being bowled out for 15 in their first innings. Santall’s medium pace bowling took 283 wickets at an average of 43.31, twice taking five wicket hauls, both of which came in the 1936 season. His best figures were 5-47 against Leicestershire at Edgbaston. He also took 268 catches in first class play.

Santall received a benefit in 1935, his playing career was brought to a close by the Second World War. After leaving Warwickshire he coached schools in Reading and Cheltenham, where he died aged only 47 after suffering a thrombosis.

Santall’s father, Sydney, and brother, John, both played first class cricket for Warwickshire, his father was a famous name in Warwickshire cricket representing the County from 1892 to 1914, playing 374 first class matches, his tally of 1,207 wickets for the County only being passed by Eric Hollies in 1949. John played 8 matches for Warwickshire in 1930.

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