Famous Cricketers No 91 - J.C.Laker

did not bat - 75-1 36 18 56 2 J.B.Stollmeyer c D.C.S.Compton 256 C.L.Walcott lbw 225. ENGLAND v WEST INDIES, Port-of-Spain, March 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23 (Match drawn) retired hurt 7 537 50 8 154 2 C.L.Walcott c and b 681-8d 1 C.A.McWatt b did not bat - 98-3 - - - - 212-4d 226. ENGLAND v WEST INDIES, Sabina Park, Kingston, March 30, 31, April 1, 2, 3 (England won by nine wickets) b G.S.Sobers 9 414 4 1 13 0 139 1 did not bat - 72-1 50 27 71 4 C.L.Walcott c T.W.Graveney 346 1 G.E.Gomez lbw C.A.McWatt c J.H.Wardle S.Ramadhin c and b SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches 4 5 1 44 27 11.00 - - 3 Other matches 3 4 0 79 33 19.75 - - 1 Tour 7 9 1 123 33 15.37 - - 4 Career 226 295 46 4395 100 17.65 1 12 155 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Test matches 221.1 84 469 14 4/71 33.50 - - 94.78 35.34 Other matches 112.4 29 287 8 4/47 35.87 - - 84.50 42.45 Tour 333.5 113 756 22 4/47 34.36 - - 91.04 37.74 Career 9100.5 2913 19411 1006 8/2 19.29 67 14 54.27 35.54 1954 In 1954 Laker took 135 wickets in all matches at an average of 15.17, figures which earned him eighth place in the national averages in a very wet season of bowlers’ wickets. He played in only one Test against the touring Pakistanis, the first Test at Lord’s in which he took two wickets for 39 runs. After this he was left out in favour, first of Bob Appleyard of Yorkshire and then of Jim McConnon of Glamorgan. Both these bowlers were preferred to Laker for the MCC tour to Australia and New Zealand in the winter of 1954/55. For Surrey he had some devastating performances taking 112 Championship wickets at 14.46 including eleven for 94 against Northamptonshire at Kettering, ten for 92 against Essex at Kennington Oval, ten for 90 against Middlesex at Lord’s and ten for 82 against Lancashire at Kennington Oval. He did even better in the match against MCC at Lord’s taking fifteen for 97, his best match figures to date. As a batsman he hit his second century and the highest score of his career, 113 against Gloucestershire at Kennington Oval when he shared a stand of 198 with Ken Barrington for the eighth wicket, six short of the Surrey record for that wicket. To complete a fine all-round performance he took six for 20 in the second Gloucestershire innings. In all matches he hit 807 runs at an average of 25.29 and he took twenty-nine catches. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 227. Surrey v MCC, Lord’s, May (5), 6, 7 (Surrey won by four wickets) did not bat - 130-4d 18.2 4 46 7 M.Tompkin b 126 G.Dews c R.Subba Row C.A.Milton b D.Bennett c G.A.R.Lock J.J.Warr c W.S.Surridge R.G.Marlar c R.Subba Row M.J.Hilton c A.V.Bedser 35