Famous Cricketers No 97 - Eddie Paynter

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Tests 2 3 0 114 74 38.00 - 1 1 Players v Gentlemen 1 2 1 49 37* 49.00 - - - Championship 25 42 2 2356 322 58.90 5 13 17 Other Lancs matches 3 5 0 270 94 54.00 - 4 1 Other matches 3 6 1 115 51 23.00 - 1 1 Season 34 58 4 2904 322 53.77 5 19 20 Career 273 410 46 13862 322 38.08 26 73 125 Bowling O M R W BB Ave Championship 10 3 43 0 - - Other Lancs matches 6 0 24 0 - - Season (6b) 16 3 67 0 - - Career (6b) 399.3 71 } 1155 27 3-13 42.77 (8b) 32.2 7 1938 Paynter at last “came into his own” this season and was a permanent fixture in the England Test side, being selected for all the matches against Australia. In the First Test at Trent Bridge he scored a splendid 216 not out, one of four centurions in England’s total of 658-8d, their then highest total against Australia although later surpassed at The Oval. Paynter’s innings contained one six and twenty-six fours. This was the highest individual score made by an England batsman against Australia in this country beating the 182 made by Philip Mead in 1921. Strangely this record was to be surpassed by three other batsmen later in the series, Hammond, 240 at Lord’s, Leyland 187 and Hutton 364 at The Oval. Paynter put on 206 for the fifth wicket with Denis Compton. In only his third first-class innings of the season he made his second highest score in first-class cricket, 291 against Hampshire at Southampton. After an excellent performance in the Second Test at Lord’s where he made 99 and 43 his next three innings were somewhat of a disappointment and he failed to trouble the scorer in England’s mammoth total of 903-7d in the final Test. He finished the season with 2691 runs which included eight centuries and was never anything but an automatic choice for the winter tour to South Africa, his first overseas cricket for six years. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 274. Lancashire v Worcestershire, Old Trafford, May 4, 5, 6 (Lancashire won by ten wickets) b F.B.Warne 66 468 342 not out 12 19-0 143 275. Lancashire v Hampshire, Southampton, May 7, 9, 10 (Lancashire won by an innings and 160 runs) c D.F.Walker b G.Hill 291 578-6d 277 141 276. Lancashire v Derbyshire, Liverpool, May 11, 12, 13 (Derbyshire won by 216 runs) c H.Elliott b W.H.Copson 22 171 316 c and b T.B.Mitchell 34 90 161-3d 277. Lancashire v Essex, Ilford, May 14, 16 (Lancashire won by an innings and 177 runs) lbw b M.S.Nichols 14 491-8d 119 1 195 1 278. Lancashire v Middlesex, Lord’s, May 18, 19, 20 (Lancashire won by 113 runs) lbw b C.I.J.Smith 63 280 267 lbw b C.I.J.Smith 2 318-7d 218 279. Lancashire v Northamptonshire, Old Trafford, May 21, 23 (Lancashire won by an innings and 57 runs) c K.C.James b R.J.Partridge 0 322 98 167 280. Lancashire v Derbyshire, Ilkeston, May 25, 26, 27 (Lancashire won by nine wickets) b W.H.Copson 5 373 339 not out 44 107-1 140 1 25