Famous Cricketers No 98 - Tom Goddard

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 50 Ct Players v Gentlemen 1 1 1 5 5* - - - Championship 25 32 11 157 27* 7.47 - 19 Other Glos matches 3 1 0 0 0 0.00 - 2 Other matches 2 3 1 41 15 20.50 - 1 Season 31 37 13 203 27* 8.45 - 22 Career 116 165 62 832 47 8.07 - 76 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Players v Gentlemen 32 5 92 2 2-58 46.00 - - 96.00 47.91 Championship 1066.5 311 2460 154 8-89 15.97 14 6 41.56 38.43 Other Glos matches 106 26 262 21 9-21 12.47 2 - 30.28 41.19 Other matches 82 19 201 7 3-36 28.71 - - 70.28 40.85 Season 1286.5 361 3015 184 9-21 16.38 16 6 41.96 39.04 Career (6b) 3094 703 8228 337 9-21 24.41 23 6 55.08 44.32 1930 In 1930 Goddard’s advance was rewarded by selection to play for England in the Test Match at Old Trafford, against Australia, the fourth Test of the series. The selectors were desperate to find a bowler to curb the run getting of Bradman who had hit scores of 131, 254, and 334 in the first three Tests. In the event Goddard did not bowl a ball at him but he performed tidily enough taking the wickets of Fairfax and Hornibrook for 49 runs in 32.1 overs. It was not enough to get him selected for the fifth Test and he was not to play for England again for seven years. In the Championship Goddard took 131 wickets at 18.92 and, with Parker (162 wickets at 11.90), nearly bowled Gloucestershire to the Championship. They won 15 matches as against only 10 won by the Champions, (Lancashire). Under the system then in vogue, eight points were awarded for a win and five for a lead on first innings and Lancashire had secured first innings lead on eight occasions to Gloucestershire’s two and so finished up as Champions by just 3 points. As they had decisively won the encounter at Gloucester early in the season this was, perhaps, a fair result. Goddard took a hat-trick against Glamorgan at Swansea, W.E.Jones and F.P.Ryan caught and J.Mercer bowled. He took five wickets in an innings ten times including 5/52 in the first innings of the epic tied match against the Australians at Bristol. Twice he took ten wickets or more in a match. He scored 191 runs with the bat in 35 innings and held 13 catches. A fine season ended with his selection to tour South Africa with the MCC side in the winter of 1930/31. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 117. Gloucestershire v Lancashire, Gloucester, May 7, 8, 9 (Lancashire won by ten wickets) c P.T.Eckersley b R.K.Tyldesley 0 54 52 21 66 4 C.Hallows c C.J.Barnett 218 G.E.Tyldesley c W.L.Neale G.Duckworth c W.R.Hammond R.K.Tyldesley lbw c P.T.Eckersley b E.A.Macdonald 20 210 - - - - 47-0 118. Gloucestershire v Lancashire, Old Trafford, May 10, 12, (13) (Match drawn) c C.Hallows b F.M.Sibbles 2 115 38.5 14 60 7 F.B.Watson b 118 C.Hallows b J.L.Hopwood c R.A.Sinfield E.Paynter c C.C.R.Dacre P.T.Eckersley c W.L.Neale F.M.Sibbles b R.K.Tyldesley c B.H.Lyon did not bat - 80-7 119. Gloucestershire v Oxford University, The Parks, May 17, 19, 20 (Gloucestershire won by an innings and 10 runs) did not bat - 627-2d 28 10 80 1 C.K.H.Hill-Wood b 374 18