Famous Cricketers No 60 - Ernest Tyldesley

b F.P.Ryan 37 279-5d 172 1 319. Lancashire v Middlesex, Lord’s, June 13, 15, 16 (Middlesex won by ten wickets) c G.T.S.Stevens b F.J.Durston 0 237 336 b F.J.Durston 9 103 8-0 320. Lancashire v Essex, Leyton, June 17, 18, 19 (Match drawn) lbw b A.B.Hipkin 37 431-5d 293 334-3 321. Lancashire v Hampshire, Old Trafford, June 20, 22, 23 (Lancashire won by nine wickets) st W.H.Livsey b T.O.Jameson 36 400 166 did not bat - 9-1 239 322. Lancashire v Leicestershire, Old Trafford, June 24, 25, 26 (Lancashire won by six wickets) lbw b A.W.Shipman 17 226 205 c G.Geary b A.Skelding 1 227-4 247 323. Lancashire v Nottinghamshire, Trent Bridge, June 27, 29, 30 (Match drawn) b F.C.Matthews 114 329 242 c W.A.Flint b S.J.Staples 47 251 178-3 324. Lancashire v Gloucestershire, Cheltenham (Victoria Park), July 1, 2, 3 (Lancashire won by 180 runs) c B.S.Bloodworth b E.G.Dennett 45 276 246 c W.R.Hammond b E.G.Dennett 109 334-3d 184 325. Lancashire v Sussex, Liverpool, July 4, 6, 7 (Lancashire won by an innings and 144 runs) b A.F.Wensley 82 415-9d 147 124 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Avge 100 50 Ct County Championship 14 21 2 961 114 50.57 3 4 6 Other Lancashire matches 2 3 1 49 41* 24.50 - - - Season 16 24 3 1010 114 48.09 3 4 6 Career 325 498 45 17250 244 38.07 33 95 145 Bowling O M R W BB Avge County Championship 1 1 0 0 - - Career 52.4 6 275 6 3-33 45.83 1926 The breakthrough came in 1926. Not only did Tyldesley come third in the national averages behind Hobbs and Sutcliffe but he also finished runner-up to Hobbs alone in terms of runs scored. His ten centuries put him equal first in this category along with Hobbs and Mead - the three of whom mustered a combined age of 119 - and he reappeared for England against Australia at Old Trafford, top scoring with 81 in the process. Yet the major achievement of the season was undoubtedly his setting of a new record for the most consecutive innings of 50 or more in first-class cricket - 10, equalled subsequently by only two men, Sir Donald Bradman and Romesh Kaluwitharana. Yet there was more to his amazing sequence of scores than that; no fewer than seven of these innings were centuries - and one of them a double century at that! He actually compiled a hundred in each of the seven games he played in a spell of less than four weeks in mid-summer; this was a feat even the legendary Bradman only achieved once in his career and that when, at the age of 23, fourteen years younger than Tyldesley. The run began on June 26th at Edgbaston when he batted four hours for his 144. It continued at Dover where he added 69 and a brilliant 144 not out. Back at Old Trafford he finished the first day against Sussex on 189 out of 374 for 4, having shared in 100 partnerships with Watson and Iddon; eventually out for 226 he had batted for five and three quarter hours and, according to Wisden , “scarcely made a 36