Famous Cricketers No 61 - Wes Hall

Australia 366.5 38 1395 45 5/60 31.00 2 - England 711.5 139 2121 65 7/69 32.63 2 - India 462.2 112 1221 65 6/49 18.78 4 1 New Zealand 16.2 5 42 1 1/34 42.00 - - Pakistan 100.5 18 287 16 5/87 17.93 1 - Total 1658.1 312 5066 192 7/69 26.38 9 1 First-Class Scores of 40 Runs or More (10) 50 WEST INDIES v AUSTRALIA Brisbane 1960/61 43 Queensland v Western Australia Perth 1961/62 88 Barbados v Indians Bridgetown 1961/62 50* WEST INDIES v INDIA Port-of-Spain 1961/62 50 Queensland v Victoria Brisbane 1962/63 102* West Indians v Cambridge University Fenner’s 1963 42 West Indians v West Zone Ahmedabad 1966/67 78 West Indians v Victoria Melbourne 1968/69 55 Barbados v Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge 1969 41* Barbados v Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge 1969 Five Wickets in an Innings (19) 13.1 5 41 5 West Indians v Baroda CA XI Baroda 1958/59 28.4 4 50 6 WEST INDIES v INDIA Kanpur 1958/59 32 12 76 5 WEST INDIES v INDIA Kanpur 1958/59 13.3 6 54 7 West Indians v West Zone Jorhat 19958/59 24 3 87 5 WEST INDIES v PAKISTAN Lahore 1958/59 31.2 8 69 7 WEST INDIES v ENGLAND Kingston 1959/60 30.2 8 90 6 WEST INDIES v ENGLAND Georgetown 1959/60 17.7 3 63 5 WEST INDIES v AUSTRALIA Brisbane 1960/61 21.3 2 77 5 Queensland v Victoria Melbourne 1961/62 18 1 121 5 Queensland v NSW Sydney 1961/62 12 4 29 6 Queensland v South Australia Brisbane 1961/62 15 0 76 7 Queensland v Victoria Brisbane 1961/62 20.5 5 49 6 WEST INDIES v INDIA Kingston 1961/62 9 3 20 5 WEST INDIES v INDIA Port-of-Spain 1961/62 9 3 22 6 West Indians v Essex Southend-on-Sea 1963 20.4 3 51 7 West Indians v Glamorgan Swansea 1963 25 6 75 6 Barbados v British Guiana Bridgetown 1963/64 24 0 60 5 WEST INDIES v AUSTRALIA Kingston 1964/65 15.7 4 48 5 West Indians v Tasmania Hobart 1968/69 Modes of Dismissal (Batting) (a) First-Class Ct B Lbw RO St HWkt NO Total 70 78 14 7 7 1 38 215 (b) Tests Ct B Lbw RO St HWkt NO Total 20 23 6 - 3 - 14 66 Except for the high percentage of not outs, due entirely to the fact that Hall was a lower-order batsman, these statistics are unexceptional. Even so, it is noteworthy that he was never once run out in a Test match and that he struck his own wicket only once throughout his first-class career. Like most tail-enders, Hall was especially vulnerable to pace and lost his wicket most often to Fred Trueman (8), Alan Davidson (7), and Graham McKenzie (5). Neil Hawke, Ian Meckiff, Johnny Martin, Frank Misson and John Snow also claimed Hall’s wicket 4 times each. During his Test career, the bowlers who claimed his wicket most often were Trueman (6), Davidson (5), Snow (4) and Hawke (3). 47