Bert Vogler
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Test debut | 2 January 1906 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 17 February 1911 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 29 May 2019 |
Albert Edward Ernest Vogler (28 November 1876 – 9 August 1946) was a South African
Renowned for his exploits on pitches suited to his bowling, Vogler found difficulty touring Australia where harder pitches inhibited his bowling and his batting. He did not play a first-class match following the end of the tour in the spring of 1911. The reasons for him not appearing in the Triangular Tournament in England in 1912 was because he had fallen out with Abe Bailey who was the principle financier of South Africa cricket. Their dispute dated back to the 1910/11 tour of Australia.[2]
Career
Early years
Vogler was born in
In between these two seasons for MCC, Vogler had played in the 1905/1906 Test series against England and had been extremely difficult against a second-string English team for South Africa, though he had few opportunities because of the form of Schwarz, Jimmy Sinclair and Tip Snooke.[3] His batting, however, showed such development that he scored 62 not out going in last. Only Asif Masood since then has top scored in a Test innings batting at number eleven.[4]
Development as an all-rounder
Returning again to South Africa to play for his third domestic team in
Wisden Cricketer of the Year
In 1907, Vogler went to England with one of the best bowling sides to tour that country, and did well in a summer of soft wickets which took all the spin he could get on the ball. Although he did not do as well as Schwarz or
Although Vogler did not play any cricket after this until the 1908/1909 South African season, on the matting pitches the following season he reached his highest point against England with thirty-six wickets in the five Tests for 21.75 each, and fifty-eight for 19.12 in all matches against the tourists. Vogler also hit to that point the fastest fifty in the history of Test cricket, hitting George Thompson for 22 in a single over.
Fall in Australia, and retirement
However, the following season Vogler's reputation suffered. Touring Australia for the first time as a requirement to all for the proposed Triangular Tournament on 1912, Vogler could not cope with the extremely hard Australian pitches which allowed him no bite with which to spin the ball, nor with the instructions of Australia's captain Warwick Armstrong to hit the googly bowlers off their length at any cost.[11] So ineffective was Vogler that he was left out of two of the Tests and took four wickets in the three he did play – and this in spite of the fact that two games were played on pitches affected by rain. He also failed as a batsman, averaging only nine an innings as against 21 in England in 1907 on much more difficult pitches.
Vogler never played first class cricket again. Moving to the British Isles on business, he did however play for a number of clubs in Scotland and Ireland until after World War I, and played one final first class match for the Woodbrook Club and Ground against his old teammates in 1912. He died in August 1946 from lobar pneumonia and brain disease.[12]
Notes
- ^ South African bowling, by Tip Foster
- OCLC 1050448400.)
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- ^ "Defending a target, debut ducks, and No. 11s top scoring". ESPN CricInfo. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
- ^ Thomson, A.A.; "The Googly Summer" in Preston, Norman (editor); Wisden Cricketers' Almanack; 105th edition (1968); p. 103
- ^ "Eastern Province v Griqualand West in 1906/07". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
- ^ "Nine or More Wickets in an Innings in First-Class Cricket". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 29 January 2009. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
- ^ "Sean Whitehead picks up all 10 wickets in a first-class innings". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ "Most Wickets in a Match for Eastern Province". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
- ^ South African bowling, by Tip Foster
- John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanac; Forty-Ninth edition (1912); Part II; p. 509
- ^ Smith, Rick (Autumn 2016). "Cause of Death: Some South African Cricketers". The Cricket Statistician. No. 175.