Famous Cricketers No 97 - Eddie Paynter

308. MCC v Transvaal, Johannesburg, December 16, 18, 19 (Match drawn) b E.S.Newson 5 268 - - - - 428-8d 2 0 7 0 174-2 309. ENGLAND v SOUTH AFRICA, Johannesburg, December 24, 26, 27, 28 (Match drawn) b B.Mitchell 117 422 390 c A.C.B.Langton b N.Gordon 100 291-4d 108-1 310. ENGLAND v SOUTH AFRICA, Cape Town, December 31, January 2, 3, 4 (Match drawn) lbw b A.C.B.Langton 1 559-9d 286 1 201-2 311. MCC v Eastern Province, Port Elizabeth, January 7, 9 (MCC won by an innings and 235 runs) b J.M.Buchanan 99 518-6d 172 111 1 312. ENGLAND v SOUTH AFRICA, Durban, January 20, 21, 23 (England won by an innings and 13 runs) c A.Melville b A.C.B.Langton 243 469-4d 103 353 313. MCC v Rhodesia, Bulawayo, February 4, (6), 7 (Match drawn) c H.K.S.Evans b D.S.Tomlinson 53 307-5d 242 314. ENGLAND v SOUTH AFRICA, Johannesburg, February 18, 20, (21), 22 (Match drawn) c E.S.Newson b A.C.B.Langton 40 215 349-8d c R.E.Grievson b E.S.Newson 15 203-4 315. MCC v Natal, Pietermaritzburg, February 25, 27, 28 (MCC won by nine wickets) absent hurt - 407 295 1 did not bat - 110-1 219 316. ENGLAND v SOUTH AFRICA, Durban, March 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, (11), 13, 14 (Match drawn) lbw b A.C.B.Langton 62 316 530 1 c R.E.Grievson b N.Gordon 75 654-5 481 1 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches 5 8 0 653 243 81.62 3 2 3 Other matches 7 6 0 419 158 69.83 2 2 2 Tour 12 14 0 1072 243 76.57 5 4 5 Career 316 476 52 17625 322 41.56 39 87 139 Bowling O M R W BB Ave Other matches (8b) 2 0 7 0 - - Career (6b) 414.3 72 } 1213 27 3-13 44.92 (8b) 34.2 7 1939 Sadly this was the last full first-class season for Eddie Paynter, as it was for so many cricketers at the height of their career, particularly those who were in their late thirties. The loss of what was to be six years meant that he was too old for the full rigours of a cricket season when the county programme was resumed in 1946. Paynter played in two of the three Test Matches against the visiting West Indians without conspicuous success and was dropped for the final game of the series. He performed well enough at county level and scored over seventeen hundred runs in the Championship with four centuries. The advent of war curtailed the first-class programme otherwise he might well have reached his two thousand aggregate with the help of some Festival appearances. He captained the Players at Lord’s. 28