Famous Cricketers No 87 - J.H.Wardle

Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Championship 803.2 319 1629 79 7-41 20.62 9 4 61.01 33.79 Other Yorks matches 256.5 85 584 21 6-84 27.80 3 1 73.38 37.89 Other match 33 3 120 3 2-65 40.00 - - 66.00 60.60 Season 1093.1 407 2333 103 7-41 22.65 12 5 63.67 35.56 Career 3563.4 1286 7897 345 8-87 22.88 28 7 61.97 36.93 1950 Yorkshire relied greatly upon Wardle’s bowling in 1950. He bowled 1321.4 overs, 328 more than any other bowler for the County and headed the bowling averages with 144 wickets at an average of 15.84. Only Roy Tattersall, with 193, bettered Wardle’s aggregate of 174 wickets in the season but Wardle bowled 224 more overs than the Lancashire spinner. Sadly he failed in the one Test match he appeared in against West Indies at Lord’s when he only managed to take two wickets for 104 in the match despite getting J.B.Stollmeyer lbw with his first delivery in Test cricket in England. It was not enough to earn him a second chance in the Test series. For Yorkshire he took five wickets in an innings fourteen times and ten wickets in a match once. These ten wickets were taken against Middlesex at Lord’s where his second innings figures of eight for 26 were the best of his career to date. He was always economical and some of his more miserly performances should be noted. He bowled 44.4 overs in taking four for 57 against Essex at Colchester; 68 overs in the match to take seven for 87 against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge; 25 overs to take six for 25 against Surrey at Kennington Oval; and 24 overs to take six for 12 against Gloucestershire at Hull. In this match his first fourteen overs contained thirteen maidens. His batting brought him 733 runs at an average of 18.79 with half centuries against Gloucestershire and Somerset and he took twenty-four catches. Overall he could be considered unfortunate not to gain selection for the MCC team to tour Australia and New Zealand in the winter of 1950/51. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 84. Yorkshire v MCC, Lord’s, April (29), May 1, 2 (MCC won by nine wickets) b T.E.Bailey 3 113 22 4 69 1 D.Kenyon b 284-4d st M.L.Laws b R.Berry 25 192 - - - - 23-1 85. Yorkshire v Oxford University, The Parks, May 3, 4, 5 (Oxford University won by eight wickets) c B.Boobbyer b R.V.Divecha 12 247 30.4 15 55 5 M.B.Hofmeyr b 269 P.D.S.Blake b C.E.Winn b R.V.Divecha c N.W.D.Yardley D.Henderson c F.A.Lowson b R.V.Divecha 5 182 27 10 48 0 163-2 86. Yorkshire v West Indians, Bradford, May 10, 11 (West Indians won by three wickets) lbw b S.Ramadhin 0 91 33.5 19 57 4 C.L.Walcott c A.Coxon 132 G.E.Gomez c N.W.D.Yardley S.Ramadhin c L.Hutton L.R.Pierre b b P.E.W.Jones 0 127 30.4 17 37 4 J.B.Stollmeyer lbw 87-7 C.L.Walcott lbw J.D.C.Goddard c L.Hutton G.E.Gomez lbw 87. Yorkshire v Gloucestershire, Bristol, May 17, 18, 19 (Match drawn) not out 52 404 40.2 21 51 3 A.E.Wilson b 269 2 C.J.Scott lbw C.Cook b c A.E.Wilson b T.W.J.Goddard 19 141-5d 37 13 72 2 G.M.Emmett lbw 229-8 A.E.Wilson b 88. Yorkshire v Sussex, Headingley, May 20, 22, 23 (Yorkshire won by an innings and 21 runs) c A.E.James b J.Y.Oakes 16 284-9d 21.3 11 22 4 G.Cox b 108 A.E.James c J.Firth J.M.Parks c H.Halliday J.H.Cornford b 16