Famous Cricketers No 51 - Don Kenyon

84. Worcestershire v Northamptonshire, Worcester, August 24, 25, 26 (Match drawn) c K.Fiddling b R.W.Clarke 23 479-9d 316 221-5 85. Worcestershire v Surrey, Worcester, August 27, 29, 30 (Worcestershire won by 109 runs) b W.S.Surridge 3 142 180 b E.A.Bedser 51 254 107 86. Worcestershire v Combined Services, Worcester, August 31, September 1, 2 (Combined Services won by 44 runs) c W.T.Greensmith b J.H.G.Deighton 68 286 188 c A.C.Shirreff b J.M.Vernon 21 195 337 1 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Championship 26 46 1 1360 182 30.22 1 7 22 Other matches 4 8 0 331 84 41.37 - 4 1 Season 30 54 1 1691 182 31.90 1 11 23 Career 86 155 9 3753 182 25.70 4 14 51 1950 Don was selected for the early season MCC versus Yorkshire at Lord’s and later for the Test Trial at Bradford at the end of May. This was an incredible match with the Rest, for whom Don was top scorer with 7, all out for 27 in 110 minutes. Don was one of Jim Laker’s victims in a remarkable spell of 14-12-2-8, caught by Godfrey Evans and in the second innings leg before to Eric Hollies for 9, so Test selection was put on hold for the moment. He was, however, selected for the annual Players against the Gentlemen match at Lord’s in July and scored a second innings 54. During his innings of 155, including a six and 19 fours, at Grace Road in the last match of the season he completed 2000 County Championship runs and his aggregate from all matches for Worcestershire was 2,174 averaging 45.29, with six hundreds and twelve fifties. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 87. M.C.C. v Yorkshire, Lord’s, April 29, May 1, 2 (M.C.C. won by nine wickets) b J.H.Wardle 15 284-4d 113 1 not out 9 23-1 192 1 88. Worcestershire v West Indians, Worcester, May 6, 8, 9 (Match drawn) c E.de C.Weekes b S.Ramadhin 39 134-4 249-4d 1 89. Worcestershire v Combined Services, Worcester, May 10, 11 (Worcestershire won by five wickets) b J.D.Sayer 80 163 193 b J.H.G.Deighton 53 176-5 142 90. Worcestershire v Leicestershire, Worcester, May 13, 15, 16 (Match drawn) c C.R.D.Wooler b J.E.Walsh 22 339 150 2 not out 100 150-4 429-7d 1 91. Worcestershire v Sussex, Hove, May 17, 18, 19 (Worcestershire won by six wickets) c C.Oakes b J.H.Cornford 24 284 292 c D.V.Smith b J.Langridge 76 222-4 213 1 92. Worcestershire v Gloucestershire, Worcester, May 20, 22, 23 (Gloucestershire won by ten wickets) b C.J.Scott 5 164 352 1 c J.F.Crapp b C.Cook 108 223 36-0 93. Worcestershire v Essex, Romford, May 27, 29, 30 (Match drawn) c T.H.Wade b K.C.Preston 15 409 350 c T.H.Wade b R.Smith 84 225-3 94. Rest v England XI, Bradford, May 31, June 1 (England XI won by an innings and 89 runs) c T.G.Evans b J.C.Laker 7 27 229 lbw b W.E.Hollies 9 113 95. Worcestershire v Northamptonshire, Worcester, June 3, 5, 6 (Worcestershire won by eight wickets) c R.W.Clarke b R.G.Garlick 38 329 220 lbw b F.R.Brown 26 119-2 227 1 12