Famous Cricketers No 45 - Hedley Verity

329. Yorkshire v Kent, Dover, August 27, 29 (Yorkshire won by an innings and 49 runs) not out 24 326-8d 24 7 42 5 F.E.Woolley lbw 168 1 A.E.Fagg c A.Mitchell F.G.H.Chalk st A.Wood C.H.Knott c N.W.D.Yardley J.G.W.Davies c E.P.Robinson 15 3 53 4 A.E.Fagg c E.P.Robinson 109 L.E.G.Ames st A.Wood B.H.Valentine lbw F.G.H.Chalk lbw 330. Yorkshire v Sussex, Hove, August 31, September 1, 2 (Yorkshire won by four wickets) not out 0 330-9d - - - - 77 did not bat - 70-6 17.1 2 51 3 G.Cox c A.Mitchell 322 S.C.Griffith lbw D.J.Wood b 331. Yorkshire v M.C.C., Scarborough, September 3, 5, 6 (Match drawn) c S.C.Griffith b C.I.J.Smith 9 221 26.3 9 56 3 H.M.Garland-Wells b 345 1 S.C.Griffith b K.Farnes b did not bat - 222-2 6 0 26 0 132-4d 332. H.D.G.Leveson-Gower’s XI v Australians, Scarborough, September 10, 12, 13 (H.D.G.Leveson- Gower’s XI won by ten wickets) not out 23 363-8d 10.1 1 43 1 F.A.Ward c W.E.Bowes 306 1 did not bat - 46-0 19.2 10 17 2 S.G.Barnes b 102 L.O’B.Fleetwood-Smith st P.A.Gibb SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches 4 6 2 52 25* 13.00 - - 2 Championship 20 20 5 176 41 11.73 - - 14 Other Yorks matches 5 6 3 105 45* 35.00 - - 4 Other matches 2 2 1 52 29 52.00 - - 2 Season 31 34 11 385 45* 16.73 - - 22 Career 332 374 89 5095 101 17.87 1 12 231 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Test matches 154.1 53 354 14 4/103 25.28 - - Championship 746 260 1523 111 7/18 13.72 11 3 Other Yorks matches 219 84 429 26 7/39 16.50 1 1 Other matches 72.3 27 170 7 4/71 24.28 - - Season (6-ball) 1191.4 424 2476 158 7/18 15.67 12 4 Career (6-ball) 11218.5 4017 } 25700 1718 10/10 14.95 147 50 (8-ball) 555.4 159 1938/39 - M.C.C. in South Africa The M.C.C. side taken to South Africa by Walter Hammond was extremely powerful in batting with the captain himself, Hutton, Paynter, Ames, Valentine, Edrich and Yardley scoring prolifically throughout the tour. In the provincial games the batting was aggressive, but in the Tests safety-first was too often the order of the day on wickets which greatly favoured batsmen. The final Test at Druban was the notorious ten-day Test planned to be played to a finish as England led only by 1-0. However, after a record 1981 runs had been scored the game was abandoned to allow England to travel to Cape Town and catch the boat home. Admidst all the high scoring Verity’s bowling again stood out. In the Tests he took most wickets for England, was top of the bowling averages and bowled 775 balls more than any other bowler. Included in this total were a record 766 balls (since beaten by Sonny Ramadhin) in the Durban Test. On the tour as a whole he finished second in the averages to Len Wilkinson, bowling 345 balls more than his nearest rival. His value as the cornerstone of the attack was as great as ever with his tireless accuracy never more in evidence. He did, however, receive one minor setback in the game with Orange Free State when the last man, aptly named Sparks, hit him 51