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

475. ENGLAND v SOUTH AFRICA, Durban, January 25, 26, 28, 29, 30 (Match drawn) b P.S.Heine 16 218 - - - - 283 c H.J.Keith b H.J.Tayfield 19 254 1 0 5 0 113-6 476. M.C.C. v Transvaal, Johannesburg, February 1, 2, 4, 5 (Match drawn) b P.S.Heine 131 594-8 232 477. ENGLAND v SOUTH AFRICA, Johannesburg, February 15, 16, 18, 19, 20 (South Africa won by 17 runs) c A.J.Pithey b P.S.Heine 42 251 340 c T.L.Goddard b H.J.Tayfield 1 214 142 478. ENGLAND v SOUTH AFRICA, Port Elizabeth, March 1, 2, 4, 5 (South Africa won by 58 runs) b N.A.T.Adcock 0 110 164 c W.R.Endean b H.J.Tayfield 5 130 134 479. M.C.C. v Combined Universities, Cape Town, March 9, 11, 12 (M.C.C. won by an innings and 28 runs) c C.G.Halse b D.B.Pithey 51 335 - - - - 142 1 0.2 0 4 1 R.K.Ridgway c P.B.H.May 165 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Tests 5 10 0 242 64 24.20 - 2 - Other matches 9 12 1 550 131 50.00 2 3 7 Total 14 22 1 792 131 37.71 2 5 7 Career 479 774 87 36710 300 53.43 119 169 393 Bowling O M R W Ave BB 5wi 10wm Tests 4 1 8 0 - - - - Other matches 12.2 0 65 3 21.66 2/43 - - Total (8-ball) 16.2 1 73 3 24.33 2/43 - - Career (6-ball) 4881.3 802 } 18728 575 32.57 7/36 17 2 (8-ball) 648.1 85 1957 Compton’s last full season in first-class cricket went surprisingly well for him. He started the season in good form, making four scores of fifty or more in his first six innings. He played in twenty Championship games for Middlesex making good hundreds at Old Trafford and Leyton, scene of one of his earliest appearances in a schools’ representative game. He completed his thousand runs in a season for the seventeenth and last time. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 480. Middlesex v Kent, Lord’s, May 8, 9, 10 (Kent won by an innings and 59 runs) b D.J.Halfyard 50 108 6 0 15 0 346-8d st T.G.Evans b G.Smith 53 179 481. Middlesex v Gloucestershire, Lord’s, May 11, 13, 14 (Middlesex won by 135 runs) c D.G.Hawkins b B.D.Wells 50 329 213 c D.Carpenter b C.Cook 26 133-7d 114 1 482. Middlesex v Hampshire, Portsmouth, May 18, 20, 21 (Hampshire won by 3 runs) b M.B.Heath 11 108 - - - - 133 b D.Shackleton 52 240 11 4 15 3 H.Horton lbw 218 L.Harrison c M.E.L.Melluish D.Shackleton c R.J.Hurst 483. Middlesex v Somerset, Lord’s, May 25, 27, 28 (Middlesex won by 9 runs) c J.G.Lomax b W.E.Alley 0 147 1 0 1 0 160 c H.W.Stephenson b B.Lobb 14 242 3 0 11 1 K.E.Palmer c J.T.Murray 220 484. Middlesex v Northamptonshire, Lord’s, June 1, 3, 4 (Northamptonshire won by 47 runs) b G.E.Tribe 29 230 4 0 14 2 J.S.Manning c G.P.S.Delisle 163 1 K.V.Andrew c J.T.Murray c R.Subba Row b G.E.Tribe 29 128 - - - - 242 51