Famous Cricketers No 60 - Ernest Tyldesley

218. Lancashire v Derbyshire, Liverpool, August (12), 14, 15 (Lancashire won by nine wickets) b A.Morton 0 83 125 not out 13 196-1 153 219. Lancashire v Sussex, Hastings, August 16, 17, 18 (Sussex won by nine wickets) b M.W.Tate 64 122 341 not out 128 261 44-1 220. Lancashire v Kent, Dover, August 19, 21, 22 (Match drawn) c G.C.Collins b G.J.Bryan 91 244 - - - - 347 c James Seymour b F.E.Woolley 81 213-2 4 0 31 0 343-5d 221. Lancashire v Essex, Old Trafford, August 23, 24, 25 (Match drawn) c H.W.Smith b J.W.H.T.Douglas 84 349-6d 219-7 222. Lancashire v Hampshire, Bournemouth, August 26, 28 (Hampshire won by an innings and 54 runs) b G.S.Boyes 31 139 270 c H.S.Altham b G.S.Boyes 13 77 223. The Rest of England v Yorkshire (Champion County), Kennington Oval, September 15, 16, 18, (19) (Match drawn) c A.Waddington b G.G.Macaulay 35 207 233 did not bat - 27-0 274 224. North v South, Eastbourne, September 20, 21 (North won by seven wickets) c N.E.Haig b C.W.L.Parker 17 162 160 c P.G.H.Fender b F.E.Woolley 3 62-3 63 225. The Rest of England v R.A.F. (Ex-Service), Eastbourne, September 23, 25 (R.A.F. won by eight wickets) lbw b P.G.H.Fender 16 144 196 st S.L.Amor b F.E.Woolley 10 76 25-2 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Avge 100 50 Ct Players v Gentlemen 1 2 0 17 15 8.50 - - - County Championship 29 46 5 2026 178 49.41 4 12 7 Other Lancashire matches 2 4 0 44 17 11.00 - - 2 Other matches 3 5 0 81 35 16.20 - - - Season 35 57 5 2168 178 41.69 4 12 9 Career 225 347 28 11411 244 35.77 20 64 105 Bowling O M R W BB Avge County Championship 8.4 0 61 0 - - Other Lancashire matches 3 1 3 1 1-3 3.00 Season 11.4 1 64 1 1-3 64.00 Career 51.4 5 275 6 3-33 45.83 1923 One innings stood out in Tyldesley’s 1923 season; at The Oval in mid-July Lancashire found themselves in deep trouble. Trailing by 251 on the first innings, they had only reached 134 for 4 by the close of the second day; but already E.T. was 81 not out. Wisden then recounts that he played “one of the finest innings of his life. He hooked and pulled with astonishing certainty and his off driving was scarcely less remarkable.” He gave no chance of any kind and his 236 (out of a total of 444) occupied five hours - the game was saved. Yet on only two other occasions did his second innings score reach 50 and again he lacked inspiration in the end-of-season Festival games where, after a first innings 97 against the West Indies, he subsided to 116 runs in nine completed innings. He had made a solid start to the campaign, although it was June before he posted his first century; during this 114 against Glamorgan he scored 44 of the 46 added for the 7th wicket with George Duckworth. His second came off the same attack shortly 28