Famous Cricketers No 87 - J.H.Wardle

116. Yorkshire v MCC, Scarborough, September 2, 4, 5 (Yorkshire won by five wickets) did not bat - 390-7d 22 6 63 0 249 1 lbw b T.E.Bailey 6 92-5 24 11 64 2 T.E.Bailey lbw 232 T.N.Pearce b SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 50 Ct Test Match 1 2 1 54 33* 54.00 - - Championship 26 35 7 598 59* 21.35 2 22 Other Yorkshire matches 6 10 0 81 25 8.10 - 2 Season 33 47 8 733 59* 18.79 2 24 Career 116 155 25 2282 70 17.55 6 94 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Test Match 47 16 104 2 2-46 52.00 - - 141.00 36.87 Championship 1321.4 608 2282 144 8-26 15.84 12 1 55.06 28.77 Other Yorks matches 270.1 117 523 28 6-10 18.67 2 - 57.89 32.26 Season 1638.5 741 2909 174 8-26 16.71 14 1 56.51 29.58 Career 5202.3 2027 10806 519 8-26 20.82 42 8 60.14 34.61 1951 Wardle played in two Test Matches against the South Africans in 1951 but he was not conspicuously successful taking only five wickets at an average of 34.20 with a strike rate of a wicket every 115 balls. He lost his place in the last three Tests. For Yorkshire he took ninety-nine Championship wickets at 19.27 being second in the wicket-taking list to Bob Appleyard who took a remarkable 169 wickets. Wisden commented that Wardle had not always fully exploited helpful conditions. He bowled with effect against Glamorgan at Headingley taking eleven wickets in the match for only 58 runs and he had a remarkable spell against Gloucestershire at Bristol bowling twenty-three overs to take six wickets for 18 runs. He took six for 23 against Somerset at Bramall Lane. As a batsman he made the highest score of his career, 79, against “the old enemy” Lancashire at Old Trafford, scoring the runs in eighty minutes with six sixes and seven fours. In all matches he took 127 wickets at an average of 19.71 and scored 612 runs at 16.54. He took twenty catches. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 117. Yorkshire v MCC, Lord’s, April 28, 30, May (1) (Match drawn) c H.W.Stephenson b C.J.Knott 36 218 38 13 92 3 W.G.Keighley b 411-7d W.J.Edrich c J.V.Wilson G.L.Willatt lbw did not bat - 38-1 118. Yorkshire v Oxford University, The Parks, May (2), 3, (4) (Match drawn) did not bat - 210-5 26 12 32 5 P.J.Whitcombe c D.V.Brennan 115 J.W.E.Wiley c D.V.Brennan P.D.S.Blake c F.A.Lowson D.J.Lewis c C.W.Foord R.H.Wollocombe c L.Hutton 119. Yorkshire v South Africans, Bradford, May (5), 7, 8 (Match drawn) did not bat - 214-4d 25.2 16 25 3 J.H.B.Waite c L.Hutton 76 A.D.Nourse c H.Halliday N.B.F.Mann c J.V.Wilson 26 15 32 4 J.H.B.Waite c F.S.Trueman 86-9 W.R.Endean c F.S.Trueman P.N.F.Mansell b A.M.B.Rowan lbw 120. Yorkshire v Northamptonshire, Hull, May (9), (10), 11 (Match drawn) b R.W.Clarke 2 143-7d 7 0 30 0 131-6 20