Famous Cricketers No 98 - Tom Goddard

486. Rest of England v Middlesex (Champion County), Kennington Oval, September 13, 15, 16, 17 (Middlesex won by nine wickets) st W.F.F.Price b D.C.S.Compton 8 246 46.3 6 179 4 W.J.Edrich st T.G.Evans 543-9d D.C.S.Compton st T.G.Evans R.W.V.Robins c H.J.Butler W.F.F.Price c A.V.Bedser c and b L.H.Gray 14 317 - - - - 21-1 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 50 Ct Championship 26 37 9 291 26 10.39 - 10 Other Glos matches 3 4 0 12 8 3.00 - 2 Other matches 3 6 2 23 14 5.75 - 1 Season 32 47 11 326 26 9.05 - 13 Career 486 637 175 4408 71 9.54 4 273 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Championship 1196.1 291 3284 206 9-41 15.94 24 8 34.83 45.75 Other Glos matches 130 32 352 16 6-90 22.00 1 - 48.75 45.12 Other matches 124.1 21 483 16 5-53 30.18 1 - 46.56 64.83 Season (6b) 1450.2 344 4119 238 9-41 17.30 26 8 36.56 47.33 Career (6b) 17918.4 4716 } 48505 2475 10-113 19.59 216 75 47.09 41.61 (8b) 1131 211 1948 After the brilliance of the 1947 season Goddard had a fairly ordinary season in 1948. Perhaps some falling off was inevitable. His wickets fell from 238 to 125 and his average increased from 19.59 to 21.49. Nevertheless these were still very good returns for a man in his 48th year and it was the fourteenth consecutive season in which he had taken 100 wickets. There were still some outstanding analyses. He took 11 for 165 against Sussex at Eastbourne and 11 for 133 against the same County at Bristol. He took 6 for 16 in Nottinghamshire’s second innings at Cheltenham and, altogether, he captured five wickets in an innings on ten occasions and ten wickets in a match twice. As a batsman he scored 263 runs in 35 innings and he held eleven catches. At the end of the season he had taken 2600 wickets in his career and those who thought his powers were waning would have been surprised to know that he would take a further 379 before he hung up his boots for the last time. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 487. Gloucestershire v Oxford University, The Parks, May 1, 3, (4) (Match drawn) st W.W.Davidson b A.H.Kardar 1 156 33 8 109 3 W.G.Keighley c B.O.Allen 305 H.A.Pawson b P.A.Whitcombe b - - - - 51-8 488. Gloucestershire v Worcestershire, Gloucester, May 8, 10, 11 (Match drawn) c D.M.Young b L.F.Outschoorn 8 132 51.5 20 112 4 D.Kenyon c A.E.Wilson 411 R.Howorth st A.E.Wilson R.O.Jenkins c B.O.Allen R.T.D.Perks c B.O.Allen did not bat - 315-5 69