Famous Cricketers No 60 - Ernest Tyldesley

101. Lancashire v Yorkshire, Old Trafford, August 3, 4, 5 (Yorkshire won by ten wickets) lbw b W.Rhodes 2 162 190 1 c A.Drake b W.Rhodes 11 83 56-0 102. Lancashire v Essex, Leyton, August 6, 7, 8 (Match drawn) lbw b J.W.H.T.Douglas 41 179 386-8d did not bat - 196-2 103. Lancashire v Hampshire, Liverpool, August 10, 11 (Lancashire won by an innings and 29 runs) c H.A.W.Bowell b C.P.Mead 2 228 74 125 104. Lancashire v Middlesex, Old Trafford, August 13, 14, 15 (Middlesex won by ten wickets) c J.W.Hearne b H.W.Lee 15 343 330 lbw b F.A.Tarrant 9 131 145-0 105. Lancashire v Kent, Canterbury, August 17, 18, 19 (Match drawn) lbw b C.Blythe 47 528 - - - - 272 1 0 1 0 422 106. Lancashire v Sussex, Eastbourne, August 20, 21, 22 (Sussex won by six wickets) c A.E.Relf b J.H.Vincett 5 372 432 lbw b J.H.Vincett 3 146 87-4 107. Lancashire v Hampshire, Bournemouth, August 24, 25, 26 (Match drawn) b J.A.Newman 77 389 377 did not bat - 66-4 137-8d 108. Lancashire v Northamptonshire, Old Trafford, August 28, 29, 31 (Match drawn) run out 20 353 339 144-6 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Avge 100 50 Ct County Championship 26 43 2 1316 156 32.09 1 8 12 Other Lancashire match 1 1 0 9 9 9.00 - - - Season 27 44 2 1325 156 31.54 1 8 12 Career 108 161 8 4124 156 26.95 5 22 59 Bowling O M R W BB Avge County Championship 5 0 27 0 - - Career 19.4 0 113 2 2-2 56.50 1919 In a season when all the County Championship matches were of just two days duration, Ernest Tyldesley really came into his own. Though he missed the opening game against Derbyshire at Old Trafford - thereby ending a run of over fifty consecutive games for Lancashire - he played in all the subsequent matches and fully justified all his pre-war promise. His 1635 run aggregate and average of over 44 earned him a place as one of Wisden ’s “Five Batsmen of the Year” where he found himself amongst the exalted company of Percy Holmes, Herbert Sutcliffe, Patsy Hendren and Andy Ducat. Early season success against Middlesex and Northamptonshire only heralded a modest run of scores until he eventually recorded his first 100 in mid-July at Trent Bridge; his chanceless 132 in less than three hours set him up for a remarkable run of seven successive scores exceeding 50 between July 23rd and August 9th - an early foretaste of a record to come! The sequence began with an innings of 96 against Gloucestershire, during which he shared in a dazzling stand of 218 in under two hours with his brother John (170); this was immediately followed by a new career best of 174 not out in an unbroken sixth wicket stand of 224 with James Tyldesley against Warwickshire. The run also saw him at last perform well against Yorkshire; last out for 65 out of 124 in the first innings, he scored 82 in the second innings after coming in at 13 for 3 to join Charlie Hallows in a long stand of 121 which helped save the match. Not to be totally outdone by his younger brother, Johnny Tyldesley produced the last great innings of his career in the match against Derbyshire. Now aged 45, he compiled 272 at Chesterfield, surpassing 19