Famous Cricketers No 45 - Hedley Verity

c I.M.Barrow b N.N.Nethersole 18 214-5 37.5 15 62 5 G.A.Headley c E.P.Robinson 257 1 W.G.Beckford b G.H.Mudie lbw L.G.Hylton b N.N.Nethersole lbw 218. Yorkshire v Jamaica, Melbourne Park, Kingston, March 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 (Match drawn) c L.G.Hylton b D.P.Beckford 27 465 59 30 91 2 G.A.Headley c W.E.Bowes 314 H.H.H.Johnson b did not bat - 60-0 29 13 57 0 349-8d 219. Yorkshire v Jamaica, Sabina Park, Kingston, March 11, 12, 13, 14, 16 (Match drawn) lbw b N.N.Nethersole 101 556-9d 59 22 116 4 C.R.C.Boy c H.Fisher 592 2 O.C.Stephenson c and b D.P.Beckford lbw E.A.Rae c W.E.Bowes did not bat - 68-1 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Tour 3 4 0 195 101 48.75 1 - 3 Career 219 240 48 3340 101 17.39 1 7 158 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Tour 204 85 360 16 5/34 22.50 2 1 Career (6-ball) 7281 2619 } 16166 1104 10/10 14.64 96 31 (8-ball) 190.2 65 1936 Fortified by Yorkshire’s short pre-season tour of Jamaica, Verity returned to have what was in figures his most successful domestic season in that he took his highest number of wickets (216) and scored by far his highest number of runs (855), the nearest he ever came to the ‘double’. He scored his best ever Championship score of 89, at Bath, as well as 96* for Yorkshire against the Indians. He started the season in irresistible form with the ball as in the first six matches he took 65 wickets at 8.18, including 15 wickets against Kent and Oxford University, 13 against Worcestershire and 11 against Glamorgan. In the Kent game he took 6-26 and 9-12 in 6.3 overs and also caught the 10th man. Against Nottinghamshire at Bradford he took 8 wickets in 9 overs for 42 runs which suggests that this was an all-action innings! During the season he took 9 wickets in an innings twice and 8 wickets three times. He headed the Test bowling averages in the three matches against India with 15 wickets at 15.2 conceding only 2 runs per over, and also achieved what was to be his highest Test score of 66*, at Old Trafford. No doubt he took great satisfaction when, playing for the M.C.C. Australian XI against H.D.G.Leveson-Gower’s XI at Scarborough, he took the wickets of fellow Yorkshiremen Sutcliffe, Mitchell, Smailes and Sellers. One ferocious assault was suffered, at Bath, when his batting triumph was slightly spoiled by figures of 9-0-89-2 which included 28 in an over by Hazell - 4 sixes - and 20 in four balls by Hunt. Wisden summed up his season as follows: “When the turf was false, his wonderful command of length, spin and flight enabled him to create havoc amongst batsmen… he remained without an equal in this country as a slow left-arm bowler.” He was obviously an automatic choice for G.O.B.Allen’s side to tour Australia and New Zealand in the winter of 1936-37. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 220. Yorkshire v M.C.C., Lord’s, May 2, 4, 5 (Yorkshire won by eight wickets) not out 39 269 23 9 56 4 A.M.Crawley c H.Sutcliffe 170 R.H.Moore lbw E.H.Hendren c A.Mitchell C.I.J.Smith c H.Sutcliffe did not bat - 68-2 14 2 27 0 166 1 36