Eric Hollies

Eric Hollies

William Eric Hollies (5 June 1912 – 16 April 1981) was an English cricketer, who is mainly remembered for taking the wicket of Donald Bradman for a duck in Bradman's final Test match innings, in which only four was needed for a Test average of 100. Hollies played all his first-class cricket career for Warwickshire, taking 2,323 wickets at less than 21 a piece.

Cricket writer, Colin Bateman, noted, "Hollies was one of cricket's most extraordinary characters, whose meagre thirteen Tests in no way reflected his contribution to the game. He was a fastish leg-break bowler who rarely had much use for the googly.." Bateman added, "locquacious, with a rich seam of Black Country humour, he was an immensely respected and hard-working cricketer".