1,000 first-class runs before the end of May

Cricket achievement A batsman has scored 1,000 first-class runs before the end of May in an English cricket season on only eight occasions. In five of these occasions, the batsman reached 1,000 runs with innings played in April and May, but three scored 1,000 runs in the month of May alone.Martin Williamson 2012-05-05 Rewind to ... 1938 – Cricket's most exclusive club | Cricket http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/563753.html ESPNcricinfo 2016-01-13 These were: W.G. Grace in 1895, Wally Hammond in 1927, and most recently Charlie Hallows in 1928.Mukherjee Abhishek 2014-07-18 WG Grace: Greatest cricketer ever? https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/wg-grace-greatest-cricketer-ever-159282 live 2021-08-03 Cricket Country en-US https://web.archive.org/web/20140720004208/http://www.cricketcountry.com:80/articles/wg-grace-greatest-cricketer-ever-159282 2014-07-20 Donald Bradman is the only person to have scored 1,000 runs before the end of May twice, in 1930 and 1938. Uniquely, a second batsman also reached 1,000 runs before the end of May in 1938, Bill Edrich, mainly thanks to a sporting declaration by Australia at 5.09pm on the third and final day of the match against Middlesex at Lord's on 28–30 May, when Edrich needed another 10 runs.Sengupta Arunabha Bill Edrich reaches 1,000 before May, thanks to Don Bradman’s benevolence http://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/bill-edrich-reaches-1000-before-may-thanks-to-don-bradmans-benevolence-143303 Cricket Country 9 May 2016 The rarely-achieved feat has become even more scarce since the Second World War, with only Glenn Turner and Graeme Hick reaching 1,000 runs before the end of May since 1938. In part, this is due to the reduced schedule of first-class cricket since the introduction of domestic one-day cricket competitions in the 1970s, and a corresponding reduction in the number of first-class matches played by English county teams and touring international teams. Hick, the last player to complete 1,000 first-class runs before the end of May, completed the bulk of the runs in three innings: 212 against Lancashire,http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1988/ENG_LOCAL/CC/LANCS_WORCS_CC_21-25APR1988.html Lancashire v Worcestershire at Manchester ESPNCricinfo 21 May 2022 405 not out against Somerset,https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/we-already-knew-he-could-bat-138296 We already knew he could bat ESPNCricinfo 21 May 2022 and 172 against the touring West Indies.http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1988/WI_IN_ENG/WI_WORCS_28-30MAY1988.html Worcestershire v West Indies at Worcester ESPNCricinfo 21 May 2022 He started this last innings, his last of the month, needing 153 to reach the target.https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/cmj-cricketing-immortals-welcome-flat-track-bully-into-ranks-1-jun-1998-75935 CMJ: Cricketing immortals welcome ‘flat track bully’ into their ranks (1 June 1998) ESPNCricinfo 21 May 2022 The start of the English cricket season has crept earlier in April in recent years, and Nick Compton came close to achieving 1,000 runs before the end of May 2012, needing 59 runs on 31 May against Worcestershire. Rain intervened with Compton having only scored nine, but he scored a century after resuming his innings the following day to pass 1,000 runs on 1 June. Other near misses include John Langridge who reached 1,000 runs on 2 June 1949, and Brian Lara, who reached 1,000 runs on 2 June 1994 from just seven innings.Harman Jo 2021-04-28 WG Grace, Don Bradman and the race to 1,000 runs before the end of May http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/apr/28/wg-grace-don-bradman-race-to-1000-runs-before-end-may-cricket 2021-08-02 The Guardian en Coincidentally, exactly ten years later, Ben Compton, the cousin of Nick, https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/ben-compton-875605 Ben Compton Profile and biography ESPNCricinfo 29 May 2022 also narrowly missed out on the milestone formerly achieved by their grandfather Denis' long-time England and Middlesex team-mate Bill Edrich. In 2022 Ben Compton made 878 first-class runs in the County Championship for Kent in April and May before scoring 158 runs (in two innings combined) in the last match before the end of May, a red-ball two-innings match for a "First Class Counties XI" (or "County Select XI") against the touring New Zealand cricket team. However, unlike in Hick's case in 1988, the tour match was not given first-class status as the sides used more that eleven players at different stages, so this is not recognised as 1,000 first-class runs before the end of May.https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/new-zealand-in-england-2022-1276891/first-class-counties-xi-vs-new-zealanders-tour-match-1311520/match-report-4 New Zealand slip to warm-up defeat after Ben Compton's fifth hundred of summer ESPNCricinfo 29 May 2022 1,000 runs before the end of May Name Teams Started Ended Days Innings April/May Notes W. G. Grace MCC and Gloucestershire and England 9 May 30 May 1895 22 10 May aged 46 Tom Hayward Surrey 16 April 31 May 1900 46 13 April+May Wally Hammond Gloucestershire 7 May 28 May 1927 22 13 May Charlie Hallows Lancashire 5 May 31 May 1928 27 11 May 1,000 runs in the Championship in May Donald Bradman Australia 28 April 31 May 1930 34 11 April+May 926 runs in May Donald Bradman Australia 28 April 27 May 1938 30 7 April+May 798 runs in May Bill Edrich Middlesex 30 April 31 May 1938 32 15 April+May all at Lord's Glenn Turner New Zealand 24 April 31 May 1973 38 18 April+May Graeme Hick Worcestershire 18 April 28 May 1988 41 11 April+May including 405 not out against Somerset References Further reading Cricket's most exclusive club, ESPNcricinfo, 5 May 2012 Glenn Turner joins the elite, Wisden, 1974 1000 runs before June Nick Compton's last chance to reach 1,000 runs by the end of May, The Guardian, 29 May 2012 Nick Compton denied 1,000-run milestone by rain at Worcester, BBC Sport, 31 May 2012 Category:First-class cricket records