Famous Cricketers No 67 - Ivo Bligh

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Gentlemen v Players 1 1 0 10 10 10.00 - - 1 Cambridge University 5 6 2 176 113* 44.00 1 - 3 Kent 11 20 1 212 43 11.15 - - 10 Other matches 4 8 0 216 55 27.00 - 1 2 Season 21 35 3 614 113* 19.18 1 1 16 Career 40 63 5 1009 113* 17.39 1 2 28 1880 Bligh again played a full season of first-class cricket. It was to prove the most successful of his career. Not that that looked possible when he started the summer with a pair and then made 3 and 6 in the second match. In the third game - Cambridge v Yorkshire - his form completely altered. Bligh by “brilliant batting” hit 70 out of 272 in the first innings and then 57 not out out of 75 in the second. He followed this with 90 v Gentlemen of England, made from 150 put on with Whitfeld for Cambridge’s first wicket. His only century of the year - 105 against Surrey, was made without giving a chance. Unlike 1879, Bligh was picked for Gentlemen v Players at both The Oval and Lord’s. He again appeared in the Scarborough Festival at the end of the year. Bligh finished third in both the Kent and the Cambridge batting averages and at the close of the season was appointed to a Kent Secretarial sub-committee joining Lord Harris and Herbert Knatchbull-Hugessen. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 41. Cambridge University v England, Fenner’s, May 10, 11 (England won by an innings and 56 runs) (twelve-a-side) b R.G.Barlow 0 37 172 c W.R.Gilbert b R.G.Barlow 0 79 42. Cambridge University v M.C.C., Fenner’s, May 13, 14, 15 (M.C.C. won by eight wickets) b A.Shaw 3 79 207 1 c F.Wild b A.Shaw 6 171 44-2 43. Cambridge University v Yorkshire, Fenner’s, May 20, 21, 22 (Cambridge University won by ten wickets) b T.Emmett 70 272 161 not out 57 75-0 184 1 44. Cambridge University v Gentlemen of England, Fenner’s, May 24, 25, 26 (Match drawn) c H.Rotherham b J.Robertson 90 593 232 1 45. Kent v Yorkshire, Huddersfield, June 7, 8, 9 (Match drawn) b E.Peate 14 73 245 b W.Bates 1 59-2 46. Kent v Lancashire, Old Trafford, June 10, 11, 12 (Lancashire won by 136 runs) c and b R.Wood 15 112 157 b A.Watson 1 53 144 47. Cambridge University v Surrey, Kennington Oval, June 17, 18 (Cambridge University won by seven wickets) b J.Potter 11 199 115 c H.Jupp b J.Potter 2 40-3 121 48. Cambridge University v M.C.C., Lord’s, June 21, 22, 23 (M.C.C. won by 49 runs) c A.Shaw b F.Morley 3 138 185 c T.S.Pearson b F.Morley 19 123 125 1 49. Cambridge University v Oxford University, Lord’s, June 28, 29 (Cambridge University won by 115 runs) c W.H.Patterson b G.C.Harrison 59 166 132 c A.H.Trevor b A.H.Evans 13 232 151 50. Gentlemen v Players, Kennington Oval, July 1, 2, 3 (Players won by 37 runs) not out 12 94 173 1 c T.Emmett b W.Bates 10 135 93 1 51. Gentlemen v Players, Lord’s, July 5, 6, 7 (Gentlemen won by five wickets) b A.Shaw 14 226 95 not out 9 118-5 248 11