Famous Cricketers No 61 - Wes Hall

Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5wi 10wm Other match 33.1 5 83 2 2/47 41.50 - - Career 2858.3 551 9222 391 7/51 23.58 17 2 1964 At the end of his career, Sir Frank Worrell led a party of twelve West Indians late in this season to play three exhibition matches against strong England teams. Hall participated in two of these without accomplishing very much. The heroes were Rohan Kanhai and Seymour Nurse who batted brilliantly despite the gloomy weather (which had most to do with two of the matches being left drawn). Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 104. Sir Frank Worrell’s XI v An England XI, Scarborough, September 2, 3, 4 (Match drawn) did not bat - 307-4d 4 1 21 0 272-4d 1 c R.M.Prideaux b J.S.Savage 9 202 4 0 15 0 140-3 105. Sir Frank Worrell’s XI v An England XI, Lord’s, September 14, (15), 16 (Match drawn) did not bat - 83-2 10 3 27 0 208 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Other matches 2 1 0 9 9 9.00 - - 1 Career 105 126 20 1577 102* 14.87 1 4 41 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5wi 10wm Other matches 18 4 63 0 - - - - Career 2876.3 555 9285 391 7/51 23.74 17 2 1964/65 Hall played this winter in seven first-class matches altogether, including one for a Jamaican XI against the touring Cavaliers. He acquitted himself nobly in that affair, recording 26 runs and 5 wickets. The remaining six games were all played against the Australians who suffered their first defeat in the Caribbean. The West Indies won the Test series 2-1. It was their very first series triumph against the Aussies and gave them the unofficial world championship in cricket for the first time as well. Hall captured only 16 wickets in the series but he led the West Indian bowlers with an average of 28.37 per wicket and was most instrumental in his team’s victory at Kingston. It was there, in the first Test (his 107th game) that he became only the seventh West Indian bowler (following S.G.Smith, Constantine, Ramadhin, Valentine, Sobers and Gibbs) to exceed 400 wickets in first-class cricket. In that same match also, Hall moved past Valentine (139) into second place among all West Indian bowlers. He finished the series with 148 wickets in 33 Tests, just 10 short of Ramadhin’s record (158 in 43). Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 106. A Jamaican XI v Cavaliers, Kingston, February 13, 15, 16, 17 (A Jamaican XI won by 209 runs) b F.S.Trueman 16 332 13 1 41 1 T.E.Bailey lbw 189 not out 10 242-6d 10 1 46 4 P.E.Richardson b 176 1 M.C.Cowdrey c J.L.Hendricks K.W.R.Fletcher c G.St A.Sobers A.P.E.Knott b 107. WEST INDIES v AUSTRALIA, Kingston, March 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 (West Indies won by 179 runs) b N.J.N.Hawke 9 239 24 0 60 5 W.M.Lawry lbw 217 R.B.Simpson c R.B.Kanhai R.M.Cowper c S.M.Nurse P.I.Philpott c W.A.White A.T.W.Grout c S.M.Nurse 27