Derrick Bailey

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Derrick Bailey
Personal information
Full name
Derrick Thomas Louis Bailey
Born(1918-08-15)15 August 1918
Marylebone, London, England
Died19 June 2009(2009-06-19) (aged 90)
Alderney, Channel Islands
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RoleBatsman
Relations
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1949–1952Gloucestershire
FC debut4 June 1949 Gloucestershire v Somerset
Last FC2 September 1952 Gloucestershire v Northamptonshire
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 60
Runs scored 2,029
Batting average 24.44
100s/50s 2/8
Top score 111
Balls bowled 858
Wickets 12
Bowling average 32.33
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 2/19
Catches/stumpings 36/–
Source: CricketArchive, 27 June 2009

Sir Derrick Thomas Louis Bailey, 3rd Baronet

Aurigny Air Services
in Jersey.

On inheriting

baronetcy
in 1946 from his elder half-brother, he was known for the last 63 years of his life as Sir Derrick Bailey.

Early life

Born at

Minor Counties cricket for Oxfordshire in 1937, achieving some success as a medium-pace right-arm bowler, with 12 wickets, but less as a batsman, with a highest score of just 33 in nine innings.[3][4] He played in the Oxford University Freshmen's trial match in 1937, scoring 53 in the second innings before retiring; though this was the joint highest score in the match, he was never picked for a full Oxford University team.[5]

Bailey served with the

Second World War. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on 25 August 1944 for "gallantry and devotion to duty in the execution of air operations" flying with No. 223 Squadron RAF (later renumbered No. 30 Squadron, South African Air Force).[6]

First-class cricket

From 1948, Bailey, now resident as a farmer near

county cap.[9][10] He played – more as a batsman than as a bowler – for the second eleven later the same season, and continued in that fashion for the second team across 1950, until the match with Surrey's second eleven at the end of July 1950 when, with Gloucestershire facing a heavy defeat by that season's Minor Counties champions, Bailey opened the innings and scored an unbeaten 129 to save the match.[11]

That innings led to a recall to the first team and though Bailey again took time to make a mark, in his third match, the game against Worcestershire at Cheltenham, he saved Gloucestershire from defeat by making 54 in 70 minutes at a time when Worcestershire's fast bowlers were getting lift from the pitch.[12]

At the end of the 1950 season, Basil Allen, who had captained Gloucestershire in 1937–38 and from 1947 to 1950, retired, and Sir Derrick Bailey was appointed as his successor for the 1951 season, having been one of only a handful of amateur cricketers who had played for the county in the previous two years.

Gloucestershire under Bailey in 1951 dropped from seventh in the

Hove; trailing by 273 after the first innings, Bailey promoted himself to No 3 for the second innings and made 111 "displaying special skill in strokes in front of the wicket".[14][15]

The 111 in the innings against Sussex remained Bailey's highest score, but two weeks later, he made a second century, again batting at No 3, with 101 against Northamptonshire at Rushden when, said Wisden, he was the only Gloucestershire batsman to look "completely confident" against the off-spin of Sydney Starkie.[16][17] Gloucestershire again lost the match. In the season as a whole, Bailey scored 1003 runs at an average of 30.39 runs per innings; he bowled only 31 overs all season and took just four wickets.[9][10]

Bailey's second and final season as Gloucestershire captain was 1952. The team improved marginally to ninth in the County Championship and Wisden cited a "lack of batting solidity" as a reason why further success was not achieved. It added: "A point to be remembered was that Gloucestershire almost invariably tried to play attractively. Sometimes they were beaten when risking all to win. To strike the balance between enterprise and match-winning cricket is not always easy."[18] Bailey himself was exonerated from criticism on lack of solidity: "Bailey's defensive stubbornness was worth more than its numerical value."[18] His own batting record was down on his 1951 figures: in the season as a whole he scored 864 runs at an average of 23.35 runs per innings and with a highest score of 82, made as an opening batsman in the match against Essex at Southend-on-Sea.[19]

At the end of the 1952 season, Bailey stood down from the captaincy and he did not appear again in first-class cricket. With no amateur available, Gloucestershire broke with tradition and appointed the senior professional player, Jack Crapp, as captain for the next two seasons.

After cricket

Derrick Bailey
Shield
Argent on a fess between three martlets Gules a bezant between two sprigs of mimosa Proper.
MottoVirtus Castellum Meum[20]
Aurigny Air Services, which he set up in 1968 when British United Airways pulled out of the Alderney to Guernsey route, the island's regular link with its neighbour. According to the obituary on the BBC Channel Islands website, the Aurigny airline's colours, with a yellow tail section on its planes, were chosen by Bailey in memory of his father's horse racing colours. He is succeeded to the baronetcy by his oldest son Sir John Bailey, born Edinburgh.[21]

Bailey died at his home on Alderney on 19 June 2009.[22][23]

References

  1. ^ "Sir Abe Bailey". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 26 June 2009.[unreliable source]
  2. ^ "Public School Averages". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1937 ed.). Wisden. p. 595.
  3. ^ "Second-Class Counties in 1937". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1937 ed.). Wisden. p. 663.
  4. ^ "Oxfordshire v Berkshire". cricketarchive.com. 23 August 1937. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
  5. ^ "The Universities in 1937—Oxford". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1938 ed.). Wisden. p. 595.
  6. ^ "No. 36671". The London Gazette (Supplement). 22 August 1944. p. 3958.
  7. ^ "The Minor Counties". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1949 ed.). Wisden. p. 642.
  8. ^ "Somerset v Gloucestershire". cricketarchive.com. 4 June 1949. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
  9. ^ a b "First-Class Batting and Fielding in each Season by Derrick Bailey". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
  10. ^ a b "First-Class Bowling in each Season by Derrick Bailey". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
  11. ^ "Surrey II v Gloucestershire II". cricketarchive.com. 26 July 1950. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
  12. ^ "Gloucestershire v Worcestershire". cricketarchive.com. 16 August 1950. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
  13. ^ a b "Gloucestershire in 1951". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1952 ed.). Wisden. pp. 345–362.
  14. ^ "Sussex in 1951". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1952 ed.). Wisden. pp. 535–536.
  15. ^ "Sussex v Gloucestershire". cricketarchive.com. 7 July 1951. Retrieved 27 June 2009.
  16. ^ "Northamptonshire in 1951". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1952 ed.). Wisden. pp. 464–465.
  17. ^ "Northamptonshire v Gloucestershire". cricketarchive.com. 7 July 1951. Retrieved 27 June 2009.
  18. ^ a b "Gloucestershire in 1952". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1953 ed.). Wisden. pp. 355–374.
  19. ^ "Essex v Gloucestershire". cricketarchive.com. 6 August 1952. Retrieved 27 June 2009.
  20. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.
  21. ^ "Aurigny founder's death announced". BBC. 21 June 2009. Retrieved 27 June 2009.
  22. ^ "Sir Derrick Thomas Louis Bailey Bt DFC Bar". times-online.com. 24 June 2009. Retrieved 27 June 2009.
  23. ^ "Sir Derrick Bailey, Bt". The Daily Telegraph. London. 16 July 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2009.
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
John Bailey
 Baronet
(of Cradock)
1946–2009 		Succeeded by
John Bailey
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