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Eric's Warwickshire

Paul Edwards shines a greater spotlight on the inspiring tale of Warwickshire's 1951 County Championship Triumph.

26.02.26, 10:00 Updated 02.03.26, 17:00 7 Minute Read

Paul Edwards

Eric Hollies bowled 130,625 balls in first-class cricket yet risks being remembered for just one of them.

This is not surprising when you consider that the delivery in question was a perfectly pitched googly which bowled Don Bradman for nought in his last Test innings. But Eric Hollies took 2,322 other wickets in his career, 145 of them in 1951 when Warwickshire won the second County Championship in their history with what their captain H E (Tom) Dollery described as “an extraordinary team of ordinary players.”

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