Famous Cricketers No 45 - Hedley Verity

Hammond, whose team contained a selection of international players, and Herbert Sutcliffe, who had assembled a Yorkshire XI of vintage 1930s players. Appropriately the umpires were those stern taskmasters of Hedley’s early days in the Yorkshire team, Wilfred Rhodes and Emmott Robinson. Also at this time many of Hedley’s trophies were given by his family to the Red Cross for auction in aid of the War Fund. In August 1945 at Bradford there was a three-day Roses match in aid of his dependants and although the game was severely curtailed by rain, £3,000, a large sum of money for those days, was raised, an indication of the extremely high respect in which he was held. Season by Season (Batting & Fielding) Season M I NO R HS Ave 100 50 Ct 1930 12 14 3 164 32 14.90 - - 5 1931 36 25 6 234 28 12.31 - - 17 1932 34 33 7 494 46 19.00 - - 23 1932/33 Aus and NZ 15 18 3 300 54* 20.00 - 1 15 1933 34 42 6 620 78* 17.22 - 3 26 1933/34 India & Ceylon 14 18 14 384 91* 27.42 - 2 8 1934 33 41 11 520 60* 17.33 - 1 26 1935 38 45 8 429 35 11.59 - - 35 1935/36 Jamaica 3 4 0 195 101 48.75 1 - 3 1936 36 41 14 855 96* 31.66 - 4 22 1936/37 Aus and NZ 13 22 2 180 31 9.00 - - 10 1937 33 37 14 335 76 14.56 - 1 19 1938 31 34 11 385 45* 16.73 - - 22 1938/39 South Africa 12 12 2 245 39 24.50 - - 7 1939 33 30 15 263 54 17.53 - 1 29 Total 377 416 106 5603 101 18.07 1 13 267 Season by Season (Bowling) Season O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m 1930 406.1 154 795 64 9-60 12.42 6 2 1931 1137.3 356 2542 188 10-36 13.52 18 4 1932 1117.5 401 2250 162 10-10 13.88 14 5 1932/33 Aus and NZ 171 63 } 809 45 7-37 17.97 3 - † 190.2 65 1933 1195.4 428 2553 190 9-44 13.43 18 8 1933/34 India and Ceylon 487.2 179 1180 78 7-37 15.12 5 2 1934 1282.1 500 1645 150 8-43 17.63 8 2 1935 1279.2 453 3032 211 8-28 14.36 22 7 1935/36 Jamaica 204 85 360 16 5-34 22.50 2 1 1936 1289.4 463 2847 216 9-12 13.18 17 7 1936/37 Aus and NZ 70.1 24 } 1043 38 5-42 27.44 2 - † 365.2 94 1937 1386.2 487 3168 202 9-43 15.68 20 8 1938 1191.4 424 2476 158 7-18 15.67 12 4 1938/39 South Africa 428 132 937 47 7-22 19.93 3 1 1939 † 936.7 270 2509 191 9-62 13.13 14 3 Total 11218.5 4017 } 29146 1956 10-10 14.90 164 54 † 1920.3 561 59