Famous Cricketers No 39 - D.C.S.Compton

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Tests 4 7 2 191 84 38.20 - 1 - Other matches 7 9 0 608 182 67.55 3 2 3 Total 11 16 2 799 182 57.07 3 3 3 Career 432 695 84 34004 300 55.65 113 155 361 Bowling O M R W Ave BB 5wi 10wm Total (8-ball) 16 1 101 2 50.50 1/21 - - Career (6-ball) 4666.3 767 } 17880 554 32.27 7/36 17 2 (8-ball) 631.7 84 1955 Although Denis appeared in all five Test matches against the visiting South Africans in which he made one century and three fifties with 492 runs at an average of 54.66 his performances in other games fell away considerably. He played in only eleven of Middlesex’s Championship matches in which his average fell to only 31.15. His knee was still giving him considerable trouble and this slowed him up in the field. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 433. Middlesex v Hampshire, Lord’s, May 14, 16, 17 (Middlesex won by 55 runs) c R.E.Marshall b V.H.D.Cannings 3 100 61 c E.D.R.Eagar b D.Shackleton 32 102 86 434. Middlesex v Oxford University, The Parks, May 18, 19, 20 (Match drawn) b J.B.Phillips 0 145 - - - - 124 2 0 13 0 231 1 435. M.C.C. v South Africans, Lord’s, May 21, 23, 24 (South Africans won by 93 runs) c W.R.Endean b V.I.Smith 25 87 - - - - 185-9d run out 20 189 1 0 10 0 184 436. Middlesex v Gloucestershire, Bristol, May 25, 26, 27 (Gloucestershire won by 60 runs) st P.Rochford b B.D.Wells 20 230 - - - - 110 c R.B.Nicholls b C.Cook 44 97 31 6 87 1 D.M.Young lbw 277 1 437. Middlesex v Sussex, Lord’s, May (28), 30, 31 (Match drawn) c K.G.Suttle b R.G.Marlar 150 206 12 2 29 1 G.Cox c L.H.Compton 281 1 st R.T.Webb b G.Cox 2 110-4 438. Middlesex v Worcestershire, Lord’s, June 4, 6 (Middlesex won by an innings and 110 runs) st H.Yarnold b R.Berry 51 269 - - - - 89 1 1 0 5 0 70 439. ENGLAND v SOUTH AFRICA, Trent Bridge, June 9, 10, 11, 13 (England won by an innings and 5 runs) lbw b N.A.T.Adcock 27 334 181 1 148 440. Middlesex v Somerset, Lord’s, June 18, 20, 21 (Middlesex won by nine wickets) c G.G.Tordoff b J.Hilton 48 288-5d 146 1 did not bat - 48-1 189 1 441. ENGLAND v SOUTH AFRICA, Lord’s, June 23, 24, 25, 27 (England won by 71 runs) c H.J.Keith b P.S.Heine 20 133 304 c P.N.F.Mansell b T.L.Goddard 69 353 111 442. Middlesex v Worcestershire, Worcester, July 2, 4, 5 (Middlesex won by eight wickets) lbw b R.T.D.Perks 23 271 16 3 61 2 M.J.Horton c F.J.Titmus 263 G.Dews lbw not out 50 156-2 6 1 30 2 R.G.Broadbent c J.D.B.Robertson 160 J.Lister c F.J.Titmus 47