Famous Cricketers No 45 - Hedley Verity

93. ENGLAND v AUSTRALIA, Brisbane, February 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 (England won by six wickets) not out 23 356 27 12 39 0 340 1 did not bat - 162-4 19 6 30 2 V.Y.Richardson c D.R.Jardine 175 S.J.McCabe b 94. ENGLAND v AUSTRALIA, Sydney, February 23, 24, 25, 27, 28 (England won by eight wickets) c W.A.S.Oldfield b H.H.Alexander 4 454 17 3 62 3 S.J.McCabe c W.R.Hammond 435 L.S.Darling b P.K.Lee c D.R.Jardine did not bat - 168-2 19 9 33 5 D.G.Bradman b 182 1 L.S.Darling c R.E.S.Wyatt W.A.S.Oldfield c R.E.S.Wyatt W.J.O’Reilly b H.H.Alexander lbw 95. M.C.C. v South Australia, Adelaide, Mar 10, 11, 13, 14 (Match drawn) c A.J.Ryan b R.G.Williams 12 298 15 5 28 2 B.J.Tobin b 191 1 C.V.Grimmett c T.B.Mitchell b P.K.Lee 13 371-8d 12 2 44 0 313-8 2 96. M.C.C. v Wellington, Wellington, March (21), 22 (Match drawn) lbw b E.D.Blundell 0 223-8 10 1 47 0 141-2 97. ENGLAND v NEW ZEALAND, Christchurch, March 24, 25, 26 (Match drawn) did not bat - 560-8d 23 7 58 1 P.E.Whitelaw c F.R.Brown 223 3 1 6 0 35-0 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Tests v Australia 4 5 1 114 45 28.50 - - 3 Test v New Zealand 1 - - - - - - - - Other matches 10 13 2 186 54* 16.90 - 1 12 Tour 15 18 3 300 54* 20.00 - 1 15 Career 97 90 19 1192 54* 16.78 - 1 60 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Tests v Australia 135 54 271 11 5/33 24.63 1 - Test v New Zealand 26 8 64 1 1/58 64.00 - - Other matches (6-ball) 10 1 } 474 33 7/37 14.36 2 - (8-ball) 190.2 65 Tour (6-ball) 171 63 } 809 45 7/37 17.97 3 - (8-ball) 190.2 65 Career (6-ball) 2832.3 974 } 6396 459 10/10 13.93 41 11 (8-ball) 190.2 65 1933 Verity’s Australian experiences had made him, if anything, an even better bowler than before and he finished the season with his highest aggregate to date of 190 wickets at the low cost of 13.43. Wisden , which had always had certain reservatons about his powers of flight compared with those of spin and accuracy, noted that “he was able to flight it [the ball] to better purpose than formerly” and his bowling was a key factor in Yorkshire’s third Championship in a row. Starting the season with 12 wickets against Derbyshire and 11 against Essex at a combined total of 127 runs he rarely had a poor day. Against Essex at Leyton, the year after Sutcliffe and Holmes had made their record stand of 555 there, he equalled Colin Blythe’s 1907 record of taking 17 wickets in a day which came in the middle of a four-match county spell of 50 wickets for 438 runs (ave 8.76). His 17th wicket at Leyton was his 50th against Essex in three seasons. Other performances of note were his 9-59 at Dover against Kent, 7 wickets in each innings for Yorkshire against the touring West Indians at Harrogate and 5 wickets in each innings against them for H.D.G.Leveson-Gower’s XI at Scarborough. In Lancashire’s second 19