Famous Cricketers No 45 - Hedley Verity

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Tests 2 2 1 21 21 21.00 - - 3 Players v Gentlemen 1 2 1 5 4 5.00 - - - Championship 26 31 3 528 78* 18.85 - 3 18 Other Yorks matches 3 5 0 44 22 8.80 - - 4 Other matches 2 2 1 22 12 22.00 - - 1 Season 34 42 6 620 78* 17.22 - 3 26 Career 131 132 25 1812 78* 16.93 - 4 86 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Tests 79.1 28 153 7 4/45 21.85 - - Players v Gentlemen 31 10 63 5 3/32 12.60 - - Championship 924.4 349 1826 153 9/44 11.93 14 6 Other Yorks matches 106.5 32 310 15 7/29 20.66 2 1 Other matches 54 9 201 10 5/20 20.10 2 1 Season 1195.4 428 2553 190 9/44 13.43 18 8 Career (6-ball) 4028.1 1402 } 8949 649 10/10 13.78 59 19 (8-ball) 190.2 65 1933/34 - M.C.C. in India and Ceylon On England’s first Test match tour of India Verity proved to be their outstanding bowler, taking 78 wickets in all at a cost of just over 15, including 23 in the three Tests with a match-winning 11-153 at Madras. He bowled over 100 overs more than any of his colleagues, showing remarkable stamina on a tour which lasted just under five months and involved excessive travelling and extreme heat. His immaculate length and uncanny accuracy were threatened only once, when Lala Amarnath scored an exciting 118 on his Test debut at Bombay and even the great Verity was “treated with scant respect” according to an Indian writer. Verity’s batting also proved very useful on several occasions and he scored his first Test fifty in the match at Calcutta. A feature of the tour was the enormous interest shown by the Indian crowds, particularly in the First Test at Bombay when an estimated 250,000 saw the four days of play. Once again Douglas Jardine was his touring captain, much to Hedley’s pleasure as he had enormous respect for him as a player and a man, feelings reciprocated in full by his leader. This was to be Jardine’s final series as a Test cricketer as the Australians were due in England the following season and memories of the previous winter in Australia were still too bitter. He finished in style with innings of 60, 21, 65 and 35* and with an overall Test average of 48.00. Jardine has gone down in folklore mainly as the Bodyline captain, but it should be remembered that he was a very fine batsman in his own right with a career average of 46.83. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 132. M.C.C. v Sind, Karachi, October 21, 22, 23 (M.C.C. won by 91 runs) did not bat - 307-5d 23.3 11 46 6 B.D.Shanker c W.H.V.Levett 189 M.A.Gopaldas c R.J.Gregory M.J.Mobed c D.R.Jardine J.Harris lbw D.J.Mobed b S.K.Irani st W.H.V.Levett b M.Ibrahim 10 140-8d 19 10 35 4 Naoomal Jeoomal lbw 167 A.Khalik c C.J.Barnett J.Harris b M.Ibrahim c A.H.Bakewell 133. M.C.C. v Southern Punjab, Amritsar, November 9, 10, 11 (Match drawn) not out 0 450-7d 17.2 3 48 1 Mohamed Saeed c C.J.Barnett 264 5 4 1 0 103-1 24