Famous Cricketers No 91 - J.C.Laker

Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Test matches 246.2 99 448 18 4/119 24.88 - - 82.11 30.31 Players v Gentlemen 36 11 92 4 2/38 23.00 - - 54.00 42.59 Championship 563 229 1055 85 7/16 12.41 5 - 39.74 31.23 Other Surrey matches 171.3 54 326 19 4/27 17.15 - - 54.15 31.68 Season 1016.5 393 1921 126 7/16 15.24 5 - 48.42 31.48 Career (6-ball) 13134.4 4347 } 28543 1582 10/53 18.04 104 25 51.78 34.84 (8-ball) 388.7 121 1958 Surrey won their seventh successive Championship in the 1958 season. In a wet, low-scoring year, Laker took ninety-three wickets in the Championship at the very low average of 13.58. In the four Tests that he played against an outclassed New Zealand team, he took seventeen wickets at an even lower average, 10.17. At Headingley he took eight wickets in the match for 44 runs and in the first New Zealand innings at Lord’s he took four for 13 in twelve overs. His best Championship figures were eight for 46 against Sussex at Hove when he went on to take twelve for 78 in the match. He took ten for 76 against Middlesex at Kennington Oval and seven wickets in an innings against both Gloucestershire and Nottinghamshire at Kennington Oval. In all matches he took 116 wickets at 14.23 figures that earned him sixth place in the national averages. Against Leicestershire at Kennington Oval he hit his first half-century since 1955, an innings of 59. He scored 325 runs in all matches at an average of 14.13 and he took ten catches. He was selected to tour Australia with the MCC team in the winter of 1958/59. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 353. Surrey v Cambridge University, Fenner’s, April (26), 28, 29 (Match drawn) b A.Hurd 1 207 22 5 54 1 D.J.Green st A.J.W.McIntyre 164 9 3 20 1 I.M.McLachlan st A.J.W.McIntyre 129-8 1 354. Surrey v MCC, Lord’s, May 3, 5, 6 (MCC won by an innings and 3 runs) not out 0 116 20 2 96 1 D.V.Smith c D.G.W.Fletcher 401-4d not out 21 282 355. Surrey v New Zealanders, Kennington Oval, May 7, 8 (Surrey won by an innings and 163 runs) not out 15 288 1 0 1 0 74 11 6 16 1 L.S.M.Miller c J.K.Hall 51 356. Surrey v Gloucestershire, Kennington Oval, May 10, 12, 13 (Surrey won by nine wickets) did not bat - 336-7d 14 9 10 0 126 1 did not bat - 50-1 35 13 66 7 D.M.Young c M.J.Stewart 257 R.B.Nicholls lbw A.S.Brown c J.K.Hall J.B.Mortimore c K.F.Barrington D.R.Smith c J.K.Hall C.Cook c K.F.Barrington B.D.Wells lbw 357. Surrey v Warwickshire, Kennington Oval, May 17, 19, 20 (Surrey won by an innings and 80 runs) c R.T.Spooner b K.Ibadulla 20 305-9d 20 4 49 3 F.C.Gardner c T.H.Clark 162 B.E.Fletcher c G.A.R.Lock R.T.Spooner c G.A.R.Lock 6 2 14 0 63 358. Surrey v Leicestershire, Kennington Oval, May 21, 22, 23 (Surrey won by an innings and 5 runs) c M.R.Hallam b J.S.Savage 59 278 21 6 53 3 J.van Geloven c K.F.Barrington 126 J.S.Savage c M.J.Stewart C.T.Spencer c P.B.H.May 20 7 24 4 A.C.Revill lbw 147 G.Lester c G.A.R.Lock R.A.Diment c B.Constable J.S.Savage c P.J.Loader 51