Famous Cricketers No 45 - Hedley Verity

299. Yorkshire v M.C.C., Scarborough, September 1, 2, 3 (Yorkshire won by eight wickets) not out 12 316 25 9 75 6 D.R.Wilcox b 213 M.Tindall c A.B.Sellers E.H.Hendren c W.E.Bowes R.E.S.Wyatt lbw B.O.Allen c C.Turner H.M.Garland-Wells b did not bat - 201-2 32 6 106 5 M.Tindall c T.F.Smailes 299-8d 1 B.O.Allen c H.Sutcliffe F.R.Brown lbw H.M.Garland-Wells st A.Wood C.I.J.Smith c W.Barber 300. M.C.C. Australian Team v H.D.G.Leveson-Gower’s XI, Scarborough, September 4, 6, 7 (Match drawn) c S.C.Griffith b A.R.Gover 6 301 12 1 71 0 432-8d not out 3 246-7 13 3 82 5 E.H.Hendren c R.E.S.Wyatt 232-8d F.R.Brown st G.Duckworth A.W.Wellard c J.Hardstaff M.S.Nichols lbw C.I.J.Smith b 301. Yorkshire v Middlesex, Kennington Oval, September 11, 13, 14 (Yorkshire won by an innings and 115 runs) st W.F.F.Price b R.W.V.Robins 14 401 14 1 51 2 J.M.Sims c A.B.Sellers 185 C.I.J.Smith c L.Hutton 12.5 4 43 8 G.E.Hart b 101 W.J.Edrich c W.E.Bowes E.H.Hendren lbw R.E.C.Butterworth c T.F.Smailes R.Felton c A.Wood J.M.Sims b C.I.J.Smith c T.F.Smailes L.H.Gray c N.W.D.Yardley SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches 1 1 0 3 3 3.00 - - 3 Championship 24 24 9 229 76 15.26 - 1 11 Other Yorks matches 5 6 3 71 29* 23.66 - - 4 Other matches 3 6 2 32 17 8.00 - - 1 Season 33 37 14 335 76 14.56 - 1 19 Career 301 340 78 4710 101 17.97 1 12 209 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Test matches 39 20 81 2 1/33 40.50 - - Championship 1078.3 395 2270 157 9/43 14.45 16 6 Other Yorks matches 178.5 50 507 28 8/43 18.10 3 2 Other matches 90 22 310 15 5/82 20.66 1 - Season (6-ball) 1386.2 487 3168 202 9/43 15.68 20 8 Career (6-ball) 10027.1 3593 } 23224 1560 10/10 14.88 135 46 (8-ball) 555.4 159 1938 Although Verity did not record quite so many outstanding individual performances this season, he was still his usual remarkable consistent self with 158 wickets as the same cost as in the previous season. There was only one match in which he failed to take a wicket and that was the Sussex game at Headingley when Hugh Bartlett, at the start of his outstanding season, twice hit him for 3 sixes in an over. Yorkshire again won the County Champoinship, their twentieth success, and Verity finished top of the county averages for this competition but fractionally second overall to Bill Bowes in the first-class averages of those who took over 30 wickets. As usual he was greatly indebted to his fielders 47