Famous Cricketers No 87 - J.H.Wardle

1947 Coming into the Yorkshire Championship side in June, Wardle took seventy wickets in the twenty Championship games in which he played at an average of 23.28. He bowled more overs than any other Yorkshire bowler and bowled fifty-five overs in an innings against Nottinghamshire and forty-nine overs against Surrey and Leicestershire. He took five wickets in an innings on four occasions with a season’s best performance of seven for 66 against Middlesex at Headingley. Against Surrey at Bradford he took six wickets for 28 causing Surrey to collapse from 212 for four to 271 all out. He appeared in a representative match for the North against the South at Scarborough at the end of the season where he bowled fifty-two overs as the South totalled 570 for 6 declared. As a batsman he hit a first Championship fifty against Northamptonshire at Northampton hitting six fours and one six. In all matches he scored 582 runs at an average of 18.18 and he took 24 catches. At the end of the season he was chosen to tour West Indies with the MCC side in 1947/48. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 2. Yorkshire v Somerset, Headingley, June 7, 9, 10 (Yorkshire won by an innings and 35 runs) b R.J.O.Meyer 14 321-9d 23.1 11 41 5 G.W.L.Courtenay b 152 M.F.Tremlett b R.J.O.Meyer b A.W.Wellard b H.L.Hazell b 19.4 8 33 1 H.T.F.Buse c W.Watson 134 3. Yorkshire v Hampshire, Bradford, June 11, 12, 13 (Match drawn) c E.D.R.Eagar b J.Bailey 28 236 12 8 10 0 138 c T.A.Dean b G.Hill 4 264-6d 26 17 24 1 J.Arnold b 160-3 4. Yorkshire v Middlesex, Lord’s, June 14, 16, 17 (Match drawn) lbw b R.W.V.Robins 4 187 15 3 45 0 350-2d did not bat - 147-4 5. Yorkshire v Gentlemen of Ireland, Harrogate, June 18, 19, 20 (Yorkshire won by 121 runs) b J.C.Boucher 11 164 23 13 32 3 P.H.P.Waldron c E.P.Robinson 92 3 N.H.Lambert c E.P.Robinson J.C.Boucher c A.Coxon not out 63 161-3d 25.2 7 46 3 G.C.Morrison c R.Aspinall 112 1 P.H.P.Waldron b N.B.Hool b 6. Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, Bramall Lane, June 21, 23, 24 (Nottinghamshire won by 185 runs) b N.Horsley 0 121 18 5 39 1 R.T.Simpson c T.F.Smailes 190 c F.H.Winrow b A.Jepson 7 134 20.5 7 47 3 C.B.Harris c W.Watson 250-7d F.H.Winrow c sub (H.Halliday) A.Jepson c sub (H.Halliday) 7. Yorkshire v Middlesex, Headingley, June 28, 30 (Middlesex won by 87 runs) c A.W.Thompson b D.C.S.Compton 0 85 4 1 11 0 124 lbw b R.W.V.Robins 35 186 36 16 66 7 S.M.Brown lbw 234 J.D.B.Robertson lbw D.C.S.Compton c A.Coxon R.W.V.Robins b A.W.Thompson st D.V.Brennan L.H.Compton c N.W.D.Yardley L.H.Gray c E.P.Robinson 8. Yorkshire v Kent, Tunbridge Wells, July 2, 3 (Kent won by 57 runs) b J.G.W.Davies 0 151 17 4 44 0 303 b R.R.Dovey 28 163 - - - - 68 9. Yorkshire v Surrey, Bradford, July 6, 8, 9 (Surrey won by five wickets) not out 10 87 22.5 13 28 6 E.R.T.Holmes c E.P.Robinson 271 A.J.W.McIntyre c A.Coxon G.J.Whittaker lbw J.C.Laker c A.Booth A.V.Bedser c A.B.Sellers A.R.Gover b 6