cement his Test spot, and improving pitches and a severe shortage of support bowling caused Attewell's average to blow out to 21 in 1893 – and his record of 111 wickets at 17.54 in 1894 was disappointing given how much the pitches helped a bowler of his type. Although for the following three years Attewell did remarkably well on all pitches considering Nottinghamshire had no other bowlers even approaching county standard, the great strength of English bowling meant he was not considered for a Test match after 1891. In 1898, Attewell's tireless bowling at last seemed to lose some of its sting, and he failed to reach 100 wickets for the first time in a decade. The extremely dry summer of 1899 showed Attewell's capacity to bowl and bowl all day really was no more: he took only 29 wickets at the extremely high (even on such pitches) cost of 34.62 – in county matches he took just 19 wickets for 38.73 each. Attewell retired at the end of 1899 (apart from an abortive appearance for MCC in August 1900) and became a first-class umpire. He continued in this role on a regular basis until 1909, and even umpired at Lord's in an emergency in 1911. He was the first person in Test history to be dismissed for a king pair. See also Pairs in Test and first-class cricket References External links All first-class bowling averages Cricinfo page on William Attewell CricketArchive page on William Attewell 1861 births 1927 deaths People from Keyworth Cricketers from Nottinghamshire English cricketers England Test cricketers Nottinghamshire cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers North v South cricketers Players cricketers Midland Counties cricketers Wisden Cricketers of the Year English cricket umpires C. I. Thornton's XI cricketers A. J. Webbe's XI cricketers