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club Colne, but decided to remain with
Derbyshire. Still, he could be deadly on his best days, as when he took all ten wickets in an innings against Leicestershire for 64 runs at Leicester in 1935 or when he took 7 for 26 against Gloucestershire on a blameless pitch at Derby a year later. Mitchell
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he was considerably less successful and at times very expensive even when conditions favoured bowlers (e.g. against Kent at Burton-on-Trent and
Warwickshire at Edgbaston). Still, on Mitchell's good days Derbyshire's bowling that season could compare with almost any county side in history, and the
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in both innings he was never able to establish himself for
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he took fifty wickets in his first eight matches and was selected for âThe Restâ in a Test trial against
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opposite direction to that of a conventional leg-break or googly, and his top-spinner also brought him many wickets. However, Mitchell, unlike such bowlers as
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wicket that should have helped him, he is quoted as having said "You couldn't captain a team of bloody lead soldiers" to his captain
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at his best â on a pitch too wet to take much spin. Although expensive during the remainder of the
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set a record for
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621:, Seventy-Second Edition (1935), part ii, p. 157
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617:Southerton, Sydney James (editor);
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396:Thomas Bignall Mitchell
61:Thomas Bignall Mitchell
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445:General Strike of 1926
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663:Southerton (editor);
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