Famous Cricketers No 88 - Herbert Wilfred Taylor

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Currie Cup 2 2 0 281 142 140.50 2 - 1 Career 167 275 23 10549 250* 41.86 24 51 60 1930/31 Once more the M.C.C. toured with a less strong team than three years previously, Woolley, Sutcliffe and Larwood being absentees. Coupled with this the loss of Sandham after a road accident weakened the team even more. That they lost the rubber is history but Taylor once more enhanced his reputation. Only once in ten innings was he dismissed for less than ten and in all innings passed the fifty mark on five occasions. He did not play in the First Test which South Africa won by 28 runs but made 117 in the second encounter which the home side were unlucky not to win again being only sixty behind when time ran out. For Transvaal in the two matches against the tourists he had two fifties and a 46 in three innings. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 168. Transvaal v M.C.C., Johannesburg, November 29, December 1, 2 (Match drawn) c and b I.A.R.Peebles 46 176 238 b W.Voce 56 206-4 195 169. Transvaal v M.C.C., Johannesburg, December 16, (17), 18 (Match drawn) c E.H.Hendren b M.J.C.Allom 54 279 317 170. SOUTH AFRICA v ENGLAND, Cape Town, January 1 , 2, 3, 5 (Match drawn) c J.C.White b M.Leyland 117 513-8d 350 1 252 171. SOUTH AFRICA v ENGLAND, Durban, January 16, (17), 19, 20 (Match drawn) c G.Duckworth b W.Voce 3 177 223-1d not out 64 145-8 172. SOUTH AFRICA v ENGLAND, Johannesburg, February 13, 14, 16, 17 (Match drawn) hit wkt b I.A.R.Peebles 72 295 442 b W.Voce 13 280-7 169-9d 1 173. SOUTH AFRICA v ENGLAND, Durban, February 21, 23, 24, 25 (Match drawn) c and b I.A.R.Peebles 16 252 230 1 lbw b I.A.R.Peebles 14 219-7d 3 0 13 1 W.Farrimond c H.B.Cameron 72-4 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches 4 7 1 299 117 49.83 1 2 3 Other Transvaal matches 2 3 0 156 56 52.00 - 2 - Season 6 10 1 455 117 50.55 1 4 3 Career 173 285 24 11004 250* 42.16 25 55 63 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Test matches 3 0 13 1 1/13 13.00 - - Career 196.1 50 558 22 4/36 25.36 - - 1931/32 - South Africa in Australia and New Zealand This was Taylor’s only visit to the Antipodes and was by his standards a failure. He made 124 against New South Wales and 113 against Auckland on the New Zealand trip but failed badly in the other matches being quite undone by the finger spinners. Ironmonger dismissed him four times, Grimmett five times, O’Reilly twice and Fleetwood-Smith once. Although he made nearly a thousand runs on the tour he only reached fifty in a quarter of his innings and never played for South Africa again. He 23