Famous Cricketers No 98 - Tom Goddard

18 4 59 4 N.F.Armstrong c F.J.Seabrook 125 G.S.Watson b C.L.Edgson c W.R.Hammond W.H.Marlow c W.R.Hammond 302. Gloucestershire v Warwickshire, Gloucester, August (31), September 2, 3 (Match drawn) not out 6 280 31.5 2 170 5 N.Kilner c W.R.Hammond 305 R.E.S.Wyatt c B.O.Allen F.R.Santall c W.L.Neale H.E.Dollery st H.Smith W.E.Fantham b 10 0 30 0 113-2 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 50 Ct Championship 29 41 4 383 35 10.35 - 13 Other Glos matches 2 3 0 27 24 9.00 - 3 Season 31 44 4 410 35 10.25 - 16 Career 302 405 113 2663 71 9.11 1 181 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Championship 1453.4 354 3800 189 8-139 20.10 18 6 46.14 43.56 Other Glos matches 99.1 30 273 11 4-110 24.81 - - 54.09 45.88 Season 1552.5 384 4073 200 8-139 20.36 18 6 46.58 43.71 Career (6b) 11275 3007 27612 1314 9-21 21.01 100 33 51.48 40.81 1936 Goddard took his first benefit in the 1936 season choosing the game against Nottinghamshire at Gloucester at the end of August. He suffered a strained side in August which restricted his effectiveness to some extent although it did not prevent him taking 8 for 64 against Essex and 7 for 66 against Sussex during the month. Altogether he took 143 Championship wickets, three less than Reg Sinfield who headed the Gloucestershire averages. Goddard’s 153 wickets overall that season were taken at 20.30 each and he took five wickets or more in an innings 15 times and ten wickets in a match on threeoccasions. These figures included his 100th five wicket haul, against Oxford University in May. As a batsman he scored 376 runs in 36 innings including his second half-century, an innings of 67 against Sussex at Eastbourne. He held seventeen catches. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 303. Gloucestershire v Oxford University, The Parks, May 2, 4, 5 (Oxford University won by 34 runs) c D.O.Hay b R.West 22 215 37.1 6 110 6 P.G.Foster c D.A.C.Page 348 R.C.M.Kimpton c W.L.Neale N.S.Mitchell-Innes c E.J.Stephens M.H.Matthews lbw R.F.H.Darwall-Smith b R.West c J.F.Crapp c N.S.Mitchell-Innes b J.H.Dyson 1 360 22 1 83 4 M.R.Barton lbw 261 2 N.S.Mitchell-Innes c and b D.O.Hay c J.F.Crapp A.P.Singleton lbw 304. Gloucestershire v Kent, Gravesend, May 6, 7, 8 (Kent won by 153 runs) not out 3 102 13.2 9 14 3 I.S.Akers-Douglas lbw 180 1 W.H.V.Levett lbw A.P.Freeman c C.J.Barnett c W.H.V.Levett b C.Lewis 0 196 32 4 101 4 W.H.Ashdown lbw 271 1 F.E.Woolley c R.W.Haynes L.J.Todd lbw W.H.V.Levett lbw 42