Famous Cricketers No 80 - E.G.Wynyard

Own Team O M R W Opp Ct St Total Total 12. MCC v Kent, Lord’s, May 14, 15 (MCC won by five wickets) b W.Wright 0 82 61 b S.Christopherson 27 173-5 193 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Other match 1 2 0 27 27 13.50 - - 1 - - Career 12 21 1 303 61 15.15 - 1 4 9 - 1890 Back in India, Wynyard missed the English season of 1889 but a home posting as an instructor at Sandhurst for 1890 kept him in England for all future seasons. For A.J.Webbe’s Team v Cambridge University he recorded his highest first-class score to date of 91* when he played under the pseudonym of S.M.Whittle ‘for very good reasons’ as he later told an interviewer in The Cricket Field . Together with Herbert Hewett (114) he added 175 for the fourth wicket. Wynyard also recalled that his best spell as a wicketkeeper came during the week in which he played in the above match and the succeeding one against Oxford University; a total of nine dismissals. He kept wicket for Hampshire throughout the season and in eight matches had nine catches and 12 stumpings. Wynyard was in good form with the bat for his county to finish with 455 runs average 37.91 which included his first Hampshire century, 114 not out in three hours ten minutes against Sussex at Hove after making 40 in the first innings. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct St Total Total 13. A.J.Webbe’s XII v Cambridge University (12-a-side), Fenner’s, May 19, 20, 21 (A.J.Webbe’s XII won by eleven wickets) † not out 91 363 187 1 did not bat - 39-0 212 3 14. Gentlemen of England v Oxford University (12-a-side), The Parks, May 22, 23, 24 (Gentlemen of England won by 141 runs) † c L.C.H.Palairet b G.F.H.Berkeley 8 261 199 4 b E.Smith 30 321 242 1 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Other matches 2 3 1 129 91* 64.50 - 1 - 9 - Career 14 24 2 432 91* 19.63 - 2 4 18 - 1893 Wynyard was kept out of first-class cricket in 1891 and 1892 by his Army commitments which also reduced his Hampshire appearances to three matches only, in which he did nothing special. However, he was the county’s best batsman in 1893 with 450 runs average 50.00 which was boosted by his best Hampshire score to date of 154 (16 fours and two fives) against Warwickshire at Southampton. In his Cricket Field interview, Wynyard told an amusing anecdote about this innings which involved Warwickshire bowler Jack Shilton. He related: “I was a good deal amused by Shilton, who, when I caught him at short slip, said to me, as he went away from the wickets, ‘Ah, Captain, if you had let that one go, there would always have been a bottle for you whenever you liked to call.’ He bowled me in the first innings for 8, and when I came in again he said, ‘I’ve got another special one up my sleeve for you, captain.’ But in the first over I hit him twice to the boundary and then out of the ground. I believe he was more pleased at this than anybody else.” Wynyard had his only first-class outing of the season when he was selected for the Second Class Counties against the Australians at Edgbaston but he failed 14