Famous Cricketers No 51 - Don Kenyon

506. Worcestershire v Essex, Worcester, August 4, 6, (7) (Match drawn) lbw b J.C.Laker 31 119-8 203 507. Worcestershire v Hampshire, Worcester, August 8, 9, 10 (Worcestershire won by nine wickets) b D.Shackleton 8 284 220 b D.Shackleton 3 84-1 147 508. Worcestershire v Yorkshire, Headingley, August (11), 13, 14 (Match drawn) b F.S.Trueman 13 214 321 509. Worcestershire v Derbyshire, Chesterfield, August 15, 16, 17 (Match drawn) b H.L.Jackson 26 212-4d 172-9d 1 b H.J.Rhodes 2 103-9 150 510. Worcestershire v Leicestershire, Worcester, August 18, 20, 21 (Match drawn) c sub b J.S.Savage 74 332-8d 291 343-9 511. Worcestershire v Leicestershire, Leicester, August 22, 23, 24 (Match drawn) b R.L.Pratt 24 107-8d 229 c A.Wharton b R.L.Pratt 5 107-7 106-4d 512. Worcestershire v Gloucestershire, Worcester, August 25, 27, 28 (Worcestershire won by 154 runs) c A.S.Brown b J.B.Mortimore 58 292 87 b D.R.Smith 0 188 239 513. Worcestershire v Nottinghamshire, Worcester, September 1, 3, 4 (Worcestershire won by eight wickets) c A.Gill b J.Cotton 7 253 193 not out 103 193-2 251 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Championship 32 57 4 1896 106* 35.77 2 14 17 Other matches 1 2 0 45 30 22.50 - - 2 Season 33 59 4 1941 106* 35.29 2 14 19 Career 513 929 50 31208 259 35.50 67 151 277 1963 When Wisden arrived in early April it showed that Don had been named one of its Five Cricketers of the Year by the editor Norman Preston, along with Philip Sharpe, Mushtaq Mohammad, Peter Parfitt and Fred Titmus, a once in a lifetime honour. Worcestershire’s fortunes, however, declined and they finished fourteenth, winning only four matches. Don scored just one century, 166 at Old Trafford against Lancashire where he enjoyed another big partnership with Headley when they added 163 for the third wicket with Headley scoring 108. A personal milestone was achieved when he became the first, and so far only, batsman to score 30,000 runs for Worcestershire during the second innings of the match with Middlesex at Worcester on 27 August, but his average and season’s aggregate were below par.This was the first season of the Gillette Cup and Don led Worcestershire to the Final at Lord’s after wins over Surrey, Glamorgan and Lancashire but the only bright spot in a 14-run defeat by Sussex was the naming of Norman Gifford (4-33) as Man of the Match. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 514. Worcestershire v West Indians, Worcester, May (1), 2, 3 (Match drawn) b W.W.Hall 3 119 120-2d c G.St A.Sobers b W.W.Hall 10 162-4d 57-3 515. Worcestershire v Sussex, Worthing, May 4, 6, 7 (Match drawn) c A.S.M.Oakman b E.R.Dexter 78 333-6d - - - - 345d 1 c J.M.Parks b A.Buss 20 190 2 0 2 0 5-0 516.Worcestershire v Leicestershire, Worcester, May 8, 9, 10 (Match drawn) c C.T.Spencer b B.S.Boshier 23 235-5d 237-3d c M.R.Hallam b C.T.Spencer 0 69-5 41