Sutcliffe commented:“Four words- they counted for so much.
Didn't wash with Sutcliffe.
During Sutcliffe's career, Yorkshire won the County Championship 12 times.
It is known that neither Hobbs nor Sutcliffe thought they were first-class matches;
Sutcliffe's view of Hutton was that he was“a marvel-
the discovery of a generation”.
As with all great players, much of Sutcliffe's success was down to hard work.
Sutcliffe later said that he considered this to have been his finest innings ever.
Sutcliffe was impressed by the young batsman,
commended him to Yorkshire as a good prospect.
Neither Pudsey nor any other nursery could have claimed Herbert Sutcliffe as a typical product.
Sutcliffe was impressed by the young batsman,
and commended him to Yorkshire as a good prospect.
According to Bob Wyatt, Sutcliffe“backed Jardine to the hilt” on the subject of bowling“bodyline”
aka“fast leg theory”.
Although Alan Gibson described Sutcliffe as"a good public speaker",[85]
Sutcliffe himself seems to have been modest about this ability.
But above all, says Arlott, Sutcliffe was“cool, beyond disturbance, the master
of survival and the ultimate pragmatist of cricket”.
Sutcliffe ceased to have an active role in 1948
when he handed over the management to his son Billy.
Sutcliffe said he had some initial difficulty in adjusting to Australian conditions,
specifically the strong light which affected his timing.
Wisden's view was that England wished to try out younger players but
it pointed out that Sutcliffe“remains a prolific runscorer”.
Sutcliffe's first-class aggregate in 1930 was 2,312
runs at 64.22 with 6 centuries and a highest score of 173 against Sussex.
Sutcliffe and Hutton made 16 century opening partnerships together, 15
of them for Yorkshire, their highest was 315, which they achieved twice.
His partnership with Sutcliffe remains in 2016 the most effective for the first wicket,
in terms of average partnership, in Test history.
Sutcliffe went on to make 161 and,
in the end, England won the game comfortably, by 289 runs, and regained The Ashes.
The Fifth Test at Sydney was therefore academic but
England nevertheless won by 8 wickets, Sutcliffe scoring 56 in his only innings.
Jane Sutcliffe moved the family back to Nidderdale,
where they lived in Darley, the boys enrolling at Darley School, and she remarried.
In a recent TED talk titled No Philosophy, No Humanity,
author Roger Sutcliffe asked the audience whether a flagpole was a place.
His last tour in 1932-33 included the controversial“bodyline” series, in which Sutcliffe is perceived to have been one
of Douglas Jardine‘s main supporters.
Sutcliffe took pains to modify his accent and,
as Neville Cardus commented, Sutcliffe eventually spoke“not with the accents of Yorkshire but of Teddington”.
Jennifer Sutcliffe told KIII-TV station that her husband was
working in the garden when he saw a four-foot(1.25 m) rattlesnake and beheaded her.
Jennifer Sutcliffe told local station KIII-TV that her husband
was working in the garden when he saw the four-foot(1.25m) rattlesnake and decapitated it.
Locals encouraged him to meet the Yorkshire and England cricketer Herbert Sutcliffe, a neighbour, from whom Hutton received coaching in Sutcliffe's garden.
He scored 11 half-centuries but only 2 centuries.[21] Sutcliffe was one of seven Yorkshire players who were ever-present,
playing in all 30 matches.