Bill Hanson profile

  • Bill was, and is, a supremely affable man. As a captain, he did his damnedest to give everyone a game. But captaincy is tricky, and malcontents abound. One such was a geographer called Andrew Gilg. It must have dawned on Andrew, on this particular day at Gras Lawn, that Bill wasn’t going to give him the ball. He was the only man behind the wicket on the leg side, when the batsman glanced the ball a little wide of him. The black dog was on Andrew’s shoulder today. He watched the ball slide past him and walked very slowly after it while the batsmen ran two or three. That was when Andrew decided to join the Nomads, carrying with him, I suspect, a festering hatred of the Erratics. By the time I started playing, Bill was in competition with his body more than with the opposition. He was a neat batsman, with a short backlift and an uncommon ability to spot the gaps in the field. I don’t think of him as a smiter of boundaries, but he accumulated runs as quickly as anybody. His unique capacity as a fielder was to be hit painfully anywhere between the ankle and the tips of his fingers. With a hint of masochism, or perhaps because he didn’t trust himself to throw the ball in from the deep, he tended to place himself close to the wicket. He’s on record as the only Erratic to have mastered the craft of limping on both legs at the same time.

Performance Details

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SeasonTeamMatchesInningsNORunsHSAverage4s6s100s50sCatchesStumpings
 Total 121111756717.501200110
Season: 1973
 All teams121111756717.501200110

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