Famous Cricketers No 91 - J.C.Laker

56. H.D.G.Leveson-Gower’s XI v MCC South African Touring Team, Scarborough, September 4, 6, 7 (Match drawn) c T.G.Evans b D.C.S.Compton 10 273 27.1 2 97 5 L.Hutton c W.Wooller 347 1 J.F.Crapp c and b D.C.S.Compton b M.F.Tremlett c K.Cranston A.V.Bedser c J.G.Dewes did not bat - 259-8 12 2 72 1 J.F.Crapp c W.Wooller 239-5d 57. H.D.G.Leveson-Gower’s XI v Australians, Scarborough, September 8, 9, 10 (Match drawn) c I.W.G.Johnson b R.R.Lindwall 7 177 20 4 95 1 S.G.Barnes c N.W.D.Yardley 489-8d did not bat - 75-2 58. South of England XI v Glamorgan, Swansea, September 15, 16, 17 (Glamorgan won by two wickets) c and b B.L.Muncer 27 301 10 3 22 0 229 c W.Wooller b J.C.Clay 33 178-6d 24 2 67 0 251-8 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches 3 6 1 114 63 22.80 - 1 - Championship 19 27 8 579 99 30.47 - 2 14 Other Surrey matches 2 4 0 34 20 8.50 - - 1 Other matches 5 7 1 101 33 16.83 - - 1 Season 29 44 10 828 99 24.35 - 3 16 Career 58 85 17 1451 99 21.33 - 5 34 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Test matches 155.2 42 472 9 4/138 52.44 - - 103.55 50.64 Championship 656.3 166 1626 74 8/55 21.97 3 - 53.22 41.27 Other Surrey matches 88 13 259 5 4/60 51.80 - - 105.60 49.05 Other matches 158.5 30 546 16 5/97 34.12 1 - 59.56 57.29 Season 1058.4 251 2903 104 8/55 27.91 4 - 61.07 45.70 Career 2083.2 515 5465 227 8/55 24.07 12 - 55.06 43.72 1949 Laker took one hundred wickets in the Championship for the first time for Surrey in 1949, topping the County’s averages with 104 wickets at 17.79. In the national averages he finished in eighth position taking 122 wickets at 19.85 in all matches. He played in one Test against the touring New Zealanders, appearing in the final match at Kennington Oval, a match in which England fielded no less than four spinners. Laker finished with the best figures, 4 for 89, in the match but this was not enough to give England a victory. He improved on his career-best bowling figures in the match against Warwickshire at Kennington Oval when he took eight for 42 in Warwickshire’s second innings. He took twelve wickets in the match against Kent at Kennington Oval in July, a month in which he took forty-three wickets. He scored 548 runs in all matches this summer at an average of 17.12. This included his maiden first-class hundred against Cambridge University at Guildford when, batting at No nine he added 173 for the eighth wicket with Bernard Constable. He took twenty-five catches. In the match against Northamptonshire in May came the first example of a dismissal that was to become very familiar throughout the cricket world over the next decade or so when J.E.Timms was out - caught G.A.R.Lock bowled J.C.Laker. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 59. Surrey v New Zealanders, Kennington Oval, May 11, 12, 13 (New Zealanders won by 149 runs) c F.L.H.Mooney b G.F.Cresswell 15 202 26 6 62 2 B.Sutcliffe c A.J.W.McIntyre 258 1 W.M.Wallace c and b 13