Famous Cricketers No 75 - Arthur Haygarth

Appendix IV – A Comparison of Haygarth’s Batting Cricketers of Haygarth’s era had far smaller averages than today mainly because of the poor pitches that prevailed. It is useful to put his performances in context from a historical point of view with the leader of the first-class averages each year, had they been published. Qualification: 10 innings and 100 runs (the figure in brackets after each year represents the number of players who played in important matches that year) If Haygarth failed to qualify as above his figures are shown in italics 1844 ( 136) M I NO R HS Ave E.Bushby 8 15 2 280 54 21.53 A.Haygarth (13th) 6 12 2 100 42* 10.00 1845 ( 154) M I NO R HS Ave G.Picknell 8 12 3 216 79 24.00 A.Haygarth 5 9 2 86 23 12.28 1846 ( 129) M I NO R HS Ave T.Box 11 21 1 413 79 20.65 A.Haygarth (18th) 7 14 1 113 39* 8.69 1847 ( 118) M I NO R HS Ave N.Felix 12 23 2 591 113 28.14 A.Haygarth (4th) 10 20 1 339 57 17.84 1848 ( 151) M I NO R HS Ave J.M.Lee 9 13 0 289 110 22.23 A.Haygarth 7 14 2 74 23* 6.16 1849 ( 140) M I NO R HS Ave G.Parr 12 21 4 529 86* 31.11 A.Haygarth (20th) 11 20 1 174 35 9.15 1850 ( 112) M I NO R HS Ave G.Parr 10 16 3 326 65* 25.07 A.Haygarth 6 11 0 55 14 5.00 1851 ( 159) M I NO R HS Ave John Lillywhite 7 11 2 191 63 21.22 A.Haygarth (13th) 13 24 1 297 50 12.91 1852 ( 160) M I NO R HS Ave G.Parr 11 17 4 343 69 26.38 A.Haygarth (17th) 11 18 1 162 28 9.52 1853 ( 157) M I NO R HS Ave T.Lockyer 6 11 3 267 70* 33.37 A.Haygarth (5th) 9 17 0 301 53 17.70 1854 ( 162) M I NO R HS Ave W.Caffyn 7 13 0 315 57 24.23 A.Haygarth (24th) 8 15 0 152 28 10.13 1855 ( 126) M I NO R HS Ave G.Parr 6 10 0 324 77 32.40 A.Haygarth (4th) 8 14 0 275 97 19.64 29