Famous Cricketers No 98 - Tom Goddard

32.4 4 122 7 H.Gimblett c and b 266 1 W.J.Edrich b J.F.Crapp st L.E.G.Ames R.C.M.Kimpton c L.E.G.Ames B.H.Valentine c J.H.Parks W.H.R.Andrews c R.J.Gregory T.P.B.Smith c W.R.Hammond SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 50 Ct Test Matches 2 2 2 5 4* - - - Players v Gentlemen 1 1 0 0 0 0.00 - - Championship 27 41 10 390 61* 12.58 1 18 Other Glos matches 2 3 0 26 24 8.66 - 1 Other match 1 1 1 0 0* - - 2 Season 33 48 13 421 61* 12.02 1 21 Career 364 489 133 3460 71 9.71 3 219 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Test Matches 60.4 20 143 8 6-29 17.87 1 - 45.50 39.28 Players v Gentlemen 22.5 3 68 5 3-58 13.60 - - 27.40 49.63 Championship 1261.4 310 3530 215 10-113 16.41 29 12 35.20 46.63 Other Glos matches 74.2 20 200 7 4-96 28.57 - - 63.71 44.84 Other match 59.4 11 217 13 7-122 16.69 2 1 27.53 60.61 Season 1479.1 364 4158 248 10-113 16.76 32 13 35.78 46.85 Career (6b) 14179.5 3794 34276 1715 10-113 19.98 147 49 49.60 40.28 1938 Having broken through into the Test team in 1937 Goddard could have reasonably expected to stay there against the Australians the following year. The 1938 season, though, turned out to be an unlucky one for him. He fractured his thumb in May and missed a number of Gloucestershire’s games. He also missed selection for the first Test – his County colleague Reg Sinfield played and got Bradman out. Selected in the squad to play at Old Trafford in the third Test, the match never got under way with all four days being washed out. Although in the squad for the fourth Test at Headingley, Goddard did not make the final eleven which may have been a mistake as Australia’s spinners won the match. All this meant that Goddard played in only 20 Championship games and his wickets dropped from 248 for the season to 114 with his average increasing from 16.76 to 23.02. He still had some outstanding performances taking thirteen wickets in the matches against Kent and Worcestershire and twelve against Hampshire and Middlesex. As a batsman he scored only 133 runs in 27 innings. He made eight catches. At the end of the season he was selected to tour South Africa with the MCC team in the winter of 1938/39. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 365. Gloucestershire v Oxford University, The Parks, April 30, May 2, (3) (Match drawn) c D.H.Macindoe b R.F.H.Darwall-Smith 0 445 24.5 6 73 2 R.C.M.Kimpton c R.A.Sinfield 229 D.H.Macindoe st A.E.Wilson 9 3 14 0 69-0 366. Gloucestershire v Hampshire, Portsmouth, May 4, 5, 6 (Hampshire won by 30 runs) absent ill - 271 39 13 91 3 J Arnold c W.L.Neale 279 1 G.Hill c B.O.Allen G.E.M.Heath b absent ill - 352 - - - - 374-7d 51