Stan McCabe

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Stanley Joseph McCabe (16 July 1910 — 25 August 1968) was an Australian cricketer. McCabe played 39 Test matches for Australia from 1930 to 1938, and led a noted career as a short, stocky attacking right-handed batsman, described by Wisden as "one of Australia's greatest and most enterprising batsmen" and by Don Bradman as one one of the great batsmen of the game. [ [http://content-www.cricinfo.com/australia/content/player/4188.html Don Bradman] at CricInfo retrieved 5 March 2008] He was never dropped from the Australian Test team in his careercite book | last = Cashman, Franks, Maxwell, Sainsbury, Stoddart, Weaver, Webster | year = 1997 | title = The A-Z of Australian cricketers|pages =pp. 197–198] and was known for his footwork, mastery of fast bowling and the hook shot against the Bodyline strategy. He also regularly bowled medium-pace as a part-timer, using an off cutter. He was one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1935.cite web|first= Gideon| last = Haigh| authorlink = Gideon Haigh| url=http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/australia/content/player/6540.html |title= Players and Officials - Stan McCabe|accessdate=2007-01-12|publisher=Cricinfo]

Early years

The son of a local barber, McCabe was one of four brothers, who grew up playing local cricket in his hometown. At the age of 14, McCabe won a scholarship to St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill in Sydney due to his sporting ability. After a month in the Second XI, McCabe was promoted to the Senior First XI at 14 as an all-rounder. Aside from playing cricket, he was also full-back in the school's championship winning Rugby union team in 1926.cite book | last = Pollard |first= Jack | year = 1969 | title = Cricket the Australian Way |pages=pp. 182–190] McCabe did not receive special coaching attention from the school's staff, who encouraged him to hit the ball hard and along the ground. In his later years at school, he was selected for Combined Great Public Schools of Sydney—a combined team from Sydney's private schools—for the state schoolboys' carnival.

He returned to Grenfell at the end of the 1926, and spent two years playing for the Grenfell Juniors. He was noticed by state and later Australian selector E. A. Dwyer, who led a team to play in the country town. Dwyer convinced McCabe's parents to allow their son to move to Sydney to further his cricket career. After appearing with the New South Wales Colts teams, he was selected to represent New South Wales in his first-class debut against Queensland in the 1928–29 Sheffield Shield season. He made 60 and 34, but was later omitted when the Test players returned from international duty. He settled in Sydney permanently in 1929, representing Mosman Cricket Club in Sydney Grade Cricket. However, he did play against the touring England cricket team led by Percy Chapman in a match at Goulburn for the Southern Districts of New South Wales.

During the 1929–30 season, McCabe totalled 844 runs at 56.27, making him the second-highest runscorer behind Bradman.Harte, p. 320.]

International debut

He was selected to tour England in 1930 under Bill Woodfull's Australian cricket team. The team was the youngest to have left Australian shores, and only four had previous experience on English soil. [Harte, p. 322.] As a result, the team was dubbed "Woodfull's kindegarten". [Robinson, p. 160.] In the traditional warm-up matches before the team sailed for England, McCAbe struck 103 against Tasmania. [Harte, p. 323.]

He made his Test debut in the in the first match of the Ashes series at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. He took match figures of 2/65 and in his first Test innings as a batsman, he hit the first ball for a boundary but was dismissed off the next ball, before scoring 49 in the second innings as Australia chased 428 for victory. [cite web| title = 1st Test: England vs Australia at Nottingham, Jun 13-17, 1930| url=http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/australia/engine/match/62580.html|publisher= Cricinfo|accessdate=2007-01-12] McCabe and Don Bradman were scoring quickly and had taken the score to 3/229 when McCabe lofted Maurice Tate towards mid-on. Syd Copley, a member of the ground staff who was acting as a substitute fielder dived forward and took a difficult catch. McCabe's dismissal sparked a collapse of 7/104 as England took a 93-run win. [Harte, p. 324.] McCabe scored 44 and an unbeaten 25 as Australia squared the series with a seven-wicket triumph in the Second Test at Lords. McCabe made 30 in a rain-affected draw in the Third Test, before taking 4/41 in the Fourth Test at Old Trafford, to reduce England to 8/251 in another wash out.Harte, p. 326.] With the series locked at 1–1, the Fifth and final Test at The Oval was a timeless Test. McCabe scored his first Test half-century of 54 as Australia piled on 695 to win by an innings and reclaim the Ashes 2–1. [Harte, p. 327.] In all, McCabe scored 210 runs at 35.00 and took eight wickets at 27.62 in the Tests, and aggregated 1012 runs at 32.64 and took 26 wickets at 27.80 for the whole tour. This made him the fifth highest run-scorer for the tour.Harte, pp. 327–328.] However, he was unable to register a century on tour, his highest score being 96. Nevertheless, "Wisden" praised his attacking ability to disrupt the length of opposition bowlers.

Upon his return to Australia, he played all five Tests against the West Indies in 1930–31. He scored 90 in the First Test at the Adelaide Oval as Australia took victory by ten wickets. However, he struggled thereafter, scoring 31, eight and two as Australia won the next three matches by an innings. He managed 21 and 44 as the tourists took their only Test victory of their first Test tour to Australia. He totalled 196 runs at 32.66 and took three wickets at 42.00. However, he managed a century against the West Indies for New South Wales and scored 171 against Queensland.

The following year, McCabe scored centuries in all of his three Sheffield Shield innings, scoring 229* Queensland at Brisbane and 106 and 103* in one match against Victoria in Sydney, yielding a season average of 438.00. His innings against Queensland was particularly lauded, showcasing his ability against the most hostile of fast bowling. Queensland's attack was led by Eddie Gilbert, an indigenous paceman who was the fastest in Australia and whom Bradman said was the fastest that he had ever faced.Mallett, p. 66.] On one occasion, a particularly fast Gilbert delivery evaded both the batsman and wicket-keeper, travelled more than 60 metres and crashed through a fence before hitting and killing a dog on the other side.Mallett, p. 69.] On this day, Gilbert knocked the bat out of Bradman's hand, before removing him for a duck. Gilbert cut down the New South Wales top order with a spell of 3/12 and forced Alan Kippax to retire hurt after hitting him in the upper body.Mallett, p. 67.] Undeterred, McCabe came in counterattacked in a display that featured many aggressive hook and cut shots.

He was unable to translate the success into the Test arena, where McCabe struggled despite his team's 5–0 sweep over South Africa. After managing only 27 in an innings victory in the First Test, McCabe saved his most productive Test of the summer for his home crowd for the Second Test at Sydney. He took 4/13 in the first innings and then compiled 79 as Australia cruised to another innings win.cite web|url=http://stats.cricinfo.com/guru?sdb=team;team=AUS;class=testteam;filter=basic;opposition=0;notopposition=0;decade=0;homeaway=0;continent=0;country=0;notcountry=0;groundid=0;season=0;startdefault=1877-03-15;start=1877-03-15;enddefault=2007-11-20;end=2007-11-20;tourneyid=0;finals=0;daynight=0;toss=0;scheduledovers=0;scheduleddays=0;innings=0;followon=0;result=0;seriesresult=0;captainid=0;recent=;viewtype=resultlist;runslow=;runshigh=;wicketslow=;wicketshigh=;ballslow=;ballshigh=;overslow=;overshigh=;bpo=0;batevent=;conclow=;conchigh=;takenlow=;takenhigh=;ballsbowledlow=;ballsbowledhigh=;oversbowledlow=;oversbowledhigh=;bpobowled=0;bowlevent=;submit=1;.cgifields=viewtype |title=Statsguru - Australia - Tests - Results list |publisher=Cricinfo |accessdate=2007-12-21] McCabe scored 22 and 71 and took two wickets in the Third Test win in Melbourne, but managed only two runs and three wickets in the last two Tests, which Australia won by an innings. McCabe ended the series with 201 runs at 33.50 and nine wickets at 22.77.cite web| url=http://statserver.cricket.org/guru?sdb=player;playerid=558;class=testplayer;filter=basic;team=0;opposition=0;notopposition=0;season=0;homeaway=0;continent=0;country=0;notcountry=0;groundid=0;startdefault=1999-04-01;start=1999-04-01;enddefault=2006-08-19;end=2006-08-19;tourneyid=0;finals=0;daynight=0;toss=0;scheduledovers=0;scheduleddays=0;innings=0;result=0;followon=0;seriesresult=0;captain=0;keeper=0;dnp=0;recent=;viewtype=aro_list;runslow=;runshigh=;batposition=0;dismissal=0;bowposition=0;ballslow=;ballshigh=;bpof=0;overslow=;overshigh=;conclow=;conchigh=;wicketslow=;wicketshigh=;dismissalslow=;dismissalshigh=;caughtlow=;caughthigh=;caughttype=0;stumpedlow=;stumpedhigh=;csearch=;submit=1;.cgifields=viewtype| title = Statsguru - SJ McCabe - Tests - Innings by innings list| publisher = Cricinfo |accessdate =2007-01-12] cite web| url=http://statserver.cricket.org/guru?sdb=player;playerid=558;class=testplayer;filter=basic;team=0;opposition=0;notopposition=0;season=0;homeaway=0;continent=0;country=0;notcountry=0;groundid=0;startdefault=1996-04-03;start=1996-04-03;enddefault=2006-08-19;end=2006-08-19;tourneyid=0;finals=0;daynight=0;toss=0;scheduledovers=0;scheduleddays=0;innings=0;result=0;followon=0;seriesresult=0;captain=0;keeper=0;dnp=0;recent=;viewtype=aro_series;runslow=;runshigh=;batposition=0;dismissal=0;bowposition=0;ballslow=;ballshigh=;bpof=0;overslow=;overshigh=;conclow=;conchigh=;wicketslow=;wicketshigh=;dismissalslow=;dismissalshigh=;caughtlow=;caughthigh=;caughttype=0;stumpedlow=;stumpedhigh=;csearch=;submit=1;.cgifields=viewtype |title = Statsguru - SJ McCabe - Tests - Series averages| publisher = Cricinfo |accessdate =2007-01-12]

Bodyline

McCabe made his breakthrough in the following Australian season in 1932–33, in the First Test in Sydney, with England led by Douglas Jardine employing the Bodyline bowling theory. This involved constant intimidatory short-pitched leg-side bowling with a leg-cordon to catch balls fended off by the batsman, in an attempt to curtail Donald Bradman, generally regarded as the best batsman ever, from scoring. [Mallett, pp. 90–108.] McCabe came to the wicket with the on the first day with the score at 3/82 on the first day, with Bill Woodfull, Bill Ponsford and Jack Fingleton already dismissed, and Bradman not playing due to illness. Having warned his parents, who were watching him in Test cricket for the only time, not to jump the fence if he was hit, McCabe took guard. Jardine had deployed seven men on the leg-side, usually with five close catchers and two men patrolling the boundary for hook shots. McCabe hooked the first ball he received from Bodyline spearhead Harold Larwood for a boundary.Mallett, p. 97.] After Kippax fell with the score at 87, McCabe and Vic Richardson added 129 before Richardson fell. McCabe reached stumps at 127 not out with the total 6/290. His innings was marked by dangerous cutting and compulsive hooking of short-pitched deliveries in front of his face, unfazed by the repeated body blows which hit his team-mates. The crowd responded to his instinctive aggression with wild cheering. McCabe said that "it was really an impulsive, senseless innings, a gamble that should not have been made but came off against all the odds".McCabe's attack forced Jardine to abandon his Bodyline approach. Jardine removed Larwood from the attack and brought on Gubby Allen. Under the professional-amateur divide of the time, England's captain was always an amateur, and professionals, such as Larwood, were obliged to obey the captain's orders. Allen was an amateur who refused to bowl Bodyline. McCabe struck three consecutive fours from Allen's conventional fast bowling, prompting Jardine to call for Bodyline field placings. Allen refused, so Jardine was forced to drop his Bodyline attack and resort to the spin bowling of Hedley Verity and Wally Hammond.Mallett, p. 98.]

McCabe scored 60 of the 70 runs that Australia added on the second day to finish 187* from 233 balls as Australia were bowled out for 360. McCabe added the runs in just one hour of batting and ended with 25 boundaries in his innings, which lasted a little over four hours. He was particularly effectively in farming the strike while batting with his tail end partners; in his last wicket stand of 55 with Tim Wall, he scored 50 of the runs in just half an hour. He was praised by Larwood, who spearheaded the Bodyline approach with 10/128 after the match ended in a decisive 10-wicket victory for England. Wisden reported that McCabe "scored off Larwood's bowling in a style which for daring and brilliance was not approached by any other Australian during the tour". McCabe was one of the few Australians to make any impact in the second innings, making 32 as Australia fell for 164. [Harte, pp. 344–345.]

McCabe was unable to repeat his performances in the later Tests. He made 32 and a duck as Australia gained its only victory in the Second Test in Melbourne, before managing only 57 runs in the next four innings as Australia suffered consecutive defeats. He scored 73 in the first innings of the Fifth Test in Sydney as Australia compiled 435, but scored only four in a second innings collapse, leaving England with an eight-wicket victory. [Harte, p. 348.] McCabe totalled 385 runs at 42.78 for the series and was the only Australian batsman other than Bradman to score a century, as the English decisively won the series 4-1. He took three wickets at 71.66.

During the 1933–34, McCabe was hampered by illness, which forced him to have an operation.

1934 tour of England

Returning to England in 1934, he scored 2078 runs at 69.28 including eight centuries on the tour, more than any of his team-mates. In the second match of the tour against Leicestershire, McCabe scored the century that had eluded him four years earlier, finishing 108 not out. He then scored 192 against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's, combining with Ponsford in a record partnership for the third wicket of 389. His innings of 240, the highest of his career, was registered against Surrey at The Oval.Harte, p, 355.]

In the First Test at Trent Bridge, McCabe made 65 in the first innings before scoring 88 in the second innings to extend Australia's first innings lead from 106 to a target of 380. The hosts fell short by 238 runs. McCabe then scored 34 and 19 as England struck back with an innings victory at Lord's. He then scored his first Test century on English soil during the high-scoring draw in the Third Test at Old Trafford, compiling 137 and 33 not out. [Harte, p. 356.] He made 27 in the rain-affected draw in the Fourth Test, and then scored 10 and 70 in the timeless Fifth Test. Australia won the match to regain the Ashes 2–1. McCabe aggregated 483 runs at 60.37 and four wickets in the Tests. At the time, Wisden said of him: "He blossomed forth as an almost completely equipped batsman of the forcing type and was probably the best exponent—Bradman himself scarcely excluded—of the art of hitting the ball tremendously hard and safely." Wisden said that McCabe had made "immense strides" in his batting technique. It said "In 1930 he gave the impression of still having a good deal to learn; he was inclined to be somewhat slapdash in his methods. The intervening years had clearly made a great difference in him. Losing nothing of his power, he displayed a wider and safer range of strokes."

1935-36 South African tour

The following Australian season he became captain of New South Wales following the retirement of Kippax and the departure of Bradman to New South Wales.

On the tour of South Africa in 1935–36 McCabe enjoyed more success, heading the Test batting figures with 420 runs, averaging 84.00 He hit 149 in the First Test at Durban, sharing a second-wicket partnership of 161 with Bill Brown in gale-force conditions which forced the umpires to glue the bails to the wickets using chewing gum, to set up a nine-wicket victory. [cite web| title = 1st Test South Africa v Australia at Durban 14-18 Dec 1935|url=http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1935-36/AUS_IN_RSA/AUS_RSA_T1_14-18DEC1935.html|publisher= Cricinfo|accessdate=2007-01-12] At the following Test in Johannesburg, McCabe made 34 as Australia took a first innings lead of 93. [Harte, p. 361.] Australia were set a Test record 399 in the second innings to achieve victory on a turning wicket, and McCabe joined Fingleton at 1/17 before taking the score to 1/85 by the end of the third day. The following morning in poor visibility, McCabe scored a century in the morning session, before Fingleton was dismissed at 2/194. McCabe pushed the score to 2/274, with only 125 needed with half the day remaining, Australia were on course to meet the target, having already scored 189 in the first half. However, Herbie Wade, the South African captain made an unprecedented appeal against the light due fear "for the fieldsmen's safety" in the face of McCabe's aggressive batting. [cite web| title = 2nd Test South Africa v Australia at Johannesburg 24-28 Dec 1935 |url=http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1935-36/AUS_IN_RSA/AUS_RSA_T2_24-28DEC1935.html|publisher= Cricinfo|accessdate=2007-01-12] He finished unbeaten on 189, an innings described by Fingleton as "bordering on miraculous". McCabe was unable to maintain such a standra of performance in the remaining three Tests; he scored a duck, 40 and one, as Australia won each by an innings.

The following year, having been appointed Bradman's vice-captain, McCabe had a successful Ashes series in 1936–37 in Australia. The series started poorly; McCabe made 51 in the first innings but managed only seven as Australia was caught out on a sticky wicket on the final day and lost the Furst Test in Brisbane by 322 runs. He then made a duck as Australia was again caught on a sticky by a thunderstorm during the first innings of the Second Test in Sydney. He made 93 in the second innings but Australia was unable to overcome the first innings deficit of 346 and fell to an innings defeat. [Harte, pp. 370–371.]

Australia were now 0–2 down and needed to win three Tests in a row to retain the Ashes. The pressure on McCabe increased when last-minute injuries meant that he had to open the bowling. McCabe made 63 and 22 and took a wicket as Australia won their first match in the series. [Harte, pp. 372–373.] He then scored 88 and 55 as Australia won by 148 runs in the Fourth Test in Adelaide to level the series. In the deciding Test at the MCG, McCabe scored 112, one of three centuries as Australia amassed 604, a record score in Ashes Tests in Australia. This laid the platform for the innings victory that retained the Ashes. [Harte, p. 374.] McCabe aggregated 491 runs in five Tests at 54.55, with a century and five fifties in a consist display.

International farewell

The 1938 Ashes Tour of England was McCabe's last for Australia. He was again appointed vice-captain for the tour.Harte, p. 376.] McCabe's most highly-rated innings came in the First Test at Trent Bridge. England compiled 8/658 before declaring late on the second day. McCabe arrived at the crease with the dismissal of Bradman at 2/111, and after two unsuccessful appeals against the light, he was 19 at the close of play after 35 minutes of batting with the total at 3/138.

The next morning, England's bowlers continued to make regular inroads and the score progressed to 6/194 with McCabe still batting steadily and holding up his end. With all the specialist batsmen dismissed, McCabe was now batting with wicket-keeper Ben Barnett and began to attack the English bowlers with powerful drives and hook shots. One hook off paceman Ken Farnes went for six. Despite England captain Wally Hammond's best attempts, McCabe was able to gain the strike and runs came quickly. McCabe reached his century in 140 minutes and England declined to take the new ball while he was batting. Having reached his century, McCabe lifted his scoring rate, scoring his next 132 runs in 95 minutes. Boundaries came much more readily and he took 44 runs from a three over spell by leg spinner Doug Wright. As he ran out of partners, he became more aggressive; in the last ten overs of his innings, he took 80% of the strike and hit 16 boundaries. He was the last man out, attempting to loft the spin of Verity, after a final wicket partnership with Leslie Fleetwood-Smith of 77, in which he scored 72 in 28 minutes. He finished with 232 in 235 minutes with 34 boundaries and one six, an innings in which Bradman summoned his players not to miss a ball, as "they would never see anything like it again." While McCabe was at the crease, his partners contributed a total of only 58 runs, meaning that he had outscored them by a ratio of 4:1. Upon his return to the pavilion Bradman greeted him with the words: "If I could play an innings like that, I'd be a proud man, Stan". Bradman later wrote that "Towards the end [of McCabe's innings] I could scarcely watch the play. My eyes filled as I drank in the glory of his shots". It was regarded by English captains Arthur Gilligan and Bob Wyatt to be the best innings that they had ever witnessed. Neville Cardus said that the innings was one of the greatest in Test history. [Harte, p. 377.] Wisden reported that McCabe played "an innings the equal of which has probably never been seen in the history of Test cricket; for the best part of four hours he maintained a merciless punishment of the bowling". The innings was not enough to avert the follow on, and in the second innings, McCabe made 39 as the match petered into a draw.

McCabe followed his efforts at Trent Bridge with 38 and 21 in the drawn Second Test at Lord's. He bowled heavily in the first two Tests, taking a combined total of 2/208. The Third Test was abandoned before it started due to rain, and McCabe contributed only one and 15 as Australia scrambled to a five-wicket win to retain the Ashes in the Fourth Test at Headingley after chasing a target of 105. [Harte, p. 378.] In the Fifth and final Test at The Oval, Australia played an extra batsman, meaning that McCabe opened the bowling. He took 0/85, and with Bradman and Fingleton injuring themselves during the match, McCabe was left in control of a nine-man team. England piled on 7/903 before defeating Australia by an innings and 579 runs, the heaviest defeat in Test history.Harte, p. 379.] McCabe made 14 and two, and finished the series with 362 runs at 45.25.

McCabe retired from Test matches at the end of the tour at just 28 years of age, due to chronic foot injuries. His feet had high insteps that meant that when he stood normally, his toes would not touch the floor. Curiously, none of his three most celebrated innings at Trent Bridge, Johannesburg nor Sydney resulted in an Australian victory. [cite web| title = 1st Test Australia v England at Nottingham 10-14 Jun 1938|url=http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1938/AUS_IN_ENG/AUS_ENG_T1_10-14JUN1938.html|publisher= Cricinfo|accessdate=2007-01-12] He continued to captain New South Wales for a further three seasons before retiring in 1941, aged just 31, with 24 wins and four losses in 38 matches as captain.

Later years and family life

McCabe was briefly a member of the Australian Defence Force during the Second World War, but his feet problems resulted in an early discharge. He was appointed to serve on the Sydney Sports Ground and Cricket Ground Trust and operated a sports store in George Street, Sydney from its opening until his death. In 1956–57, McCabe and O'Reilly were given a testimonial match by the New South Wales Cricket Association. The match was between Harvey's XI and Lindwall's XI and acted as a trial for the non-Test tour of New Zealand. The match raised 7,500 pounds, which was split between McCabe and O'Reilly and would have bought two average-sized homes in Sydney at the time. [Harte, p. 452.]

McCabe married Edna May Linton on February 5 1935 at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, McCabe married Edna May Linton on 5 February 1935 and the couple had two children, a son and a daughter. Plagued by ill-health in his middle age, he died after falling from a cliff at his home in Mosman, New South Wales after attempting to dispose of a dead possum. There was innuendo that McCabe had actually committed suicide, with O'Reilly musing "He had despatched the possum, but had gone overboard with it!".Mallett, p. 99.] McCabe was buried in Northern Suburbs cemetery. He was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2002.Cite web|url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100201b.htm?hilite=Stan%3BMcCabe |title=McCabe, Stanley Joseph (1910 - 1968) |first=K. J. |last=Cable |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=Melbourne University Press |accessdate=2008-07-31]

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