Schofield Haigh's Last Yorkshire Years — 1913 Retirement

Haigh had been picked for England 11 times, taking 24 Test wickets at 25.91. His Yorkshire career produced 2,012 first-class wickets at 15.95.

Through 1912-13 his pace had dropped and his back was troubling him. He told the Yorkshire committee that 1913 would be his last season.

Haigh had been the third bowler in Yorkshire's celebrated Hirst-Rhodes-Haigh combination from the 1890s through to 1913. He played 11 Tests for England, most famously taking 11 wickets in two innings against South Africa in 1906. He was a fast-medium bowler who used the Yorkshire wickets brilliantly. By 1913 his health was suspect; he played his last full season that summer and retired at its end. Yorkshire awarded him a benefit. He worked as a coach at Winchester after retirement. His death in 1921, aged 49, was attributed to influenza by some and to general decline by others; his contemporaries believed the war losses among Yorkshire colleagues — particularly Major Booth — had broken his spirit. He stands here as one of the many secondary cricketers of the era whose careers were ended just before the war and who did not live long enough to see the post-war recovery.

“Hirst, Rhodes and Haigh — the three names you said in one breath.”

Haigh worked as Winchester College coach until shortly before his death in 1921.