Minor Counties South were then dismissed for just 94 in their innings, with Rudd making a single run before he was dismissed by Norman Gifford.
However the advent of Norman Gifford in 1960 began to restrict Slade's opportunities.
He retained his place for the County Championship game against Lancashire that followed, in which he achieved his first stumping, accounting for Farokh Engineer off the bowling of Norman Gifford.
Birkenshaw retained his place for the fifth Test at Bombay, and opened the batting in the second innings, but lost his place for the Pakistan series and played only in the third Test, taking 5–55 and sharing the second-innings wickets equally with Norman Gifford.
There were a couple of minor bright spots only: he hit a fighting 36 not out as part of an unbroken last-wicket stand of 58 with Norman Gifford (30*) against Gloucestershire, and he also took the first of only two career one-day wickets when he dismissed Kent's John Shepherd in June.
He is, as Wisden put it, "no known relation" to former Worcestershire captain Norman Gifford.
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