Lives in Cricket No 16 - Joe Hardstaff

bowled; 13 (36%) were caught; four (11%) were lbw; one hit wicket and one stumped. His best bowling return was 20-5-43-4 for Nottinghamshire in Lancashire’s first innings at Old Trafford in 1947. For Nottinghamshire he took 28 wickets at 58.39. First-Class Cricket: Centuries (83) Score For Opponent Venue Season 104* Nottinghamshire² Sussex Trent Bridge 1931 145 Nottinghamshire¹ Essex Trent Bridge 1934 100 Nottinghamshire¹ Leicestershire Leicester 1934 103 Nottinghamshire¹ Surrey The Oval 1934 153 Nottinghamshire¹ Hampshire Southampton 1934 163 Nottinghamshire¹ Hampshire Trent Bridge 1935 123* Nottinghamshire¹ Leicestershire Loughborough 1935 154 Nottinghamshire¹ South Africans Trent Bridge 1935 172* Nottinghamshire¹ Northamptonshire Trent Bridge 1935 128 Nottinghamshire² Somerset Weston-super-Mare 1935 230* MCC¹ Australian XI Sydney 1935/36 147* MCC¹ New Zealand Auckland 1935/36 145 Nottinghamshire¹ Gloucestershire Trent Bridge 1936 121 Nottinghamshire¹ Warwickshire Trent Bridge 1936 112 Nottinghamshire¹ Leicestershire Leicester 1936 103 Nottinghamshire¹ Essex Clacton 1936 110 MCC¹ Tasmania Hobart 1936/37 110 Nottinghamshire² New Zealanders Trent Bridge 1937 114 England¹ New Zealand Lord’s 1937 214* Nottinghamshire¹ Somerset Trent Bridge 1937 146 Nottinghamshire² Kent Trent Bridge 1937 126 Nottinghamshire² Kent Canterbury 1937 266 Nottinghamshire¹ Leicestershire Leicester 1937 103 England¹ New Zealand The Oval 1937 243 Nottinghamshire² Middlesex Trent Bridge 1937 213 Lord Tennyson’s XI¹ Madras Madras 1937/38 105 Nottinghamshire¹ Middlesex Lord’s 1938 114 Nottinghamshire¹ Somerset Trent Bridge 1938 162 Nottinghamshire¹ Gloucestershire Trent Bridge 1938 134 Nottinghamshire² Derbyshire Trent Bridge 1938 169* England¹ Australia The Oval 1938 100 Players¹ Gentlemen Scarborough 1938 108 Leveson Gower’s XI¹ Australians Scarborough 1938 104 Nottinghamshire² Kent Trent Bridge 1939 114* Nottinghamshire² Surrey Trent Bridge 1939 125* Nottinghamshire² Leicestershire Leicester 1939 159 Nottinghamshire¹ Hampshire Trent Bridge 1939 117 Nottinghamshire¹ Essex Clacton 1939 129 Services XI² Indian XI Bombay 1943/44 150 Europeans¹ Parsees Bombay 1944/45 153 Services XI¹ Bengal Governor’s XI Calcutta 1944/45 115 England¹ The Rest Lord’s 1946 205* England¹ India Lord’s 1946 113 Nottinghamshire¹ Gloucestershire Bristol 1946 155 MCC¹ Tasmania Launceston 1946/47 134 Nottinghamshire¹ Essex Trent Bridge 1947 130 Nottinghamshire¹ Warwickshire Edgbaston 1947 200* Nottinghamshire¹ Somerset Trent Bridge 1947 202 Nottinghamshire¹ Worcestershire Dudley 1947 102* Nottinghamshire² Northamptonshire Northampton 1947 127* Nottinghamshire¹ Glamorgan Trent Bridge 1947 221* Nottinghamshire¹ Warwickshire Trent Bridge 1947 132 Career Statistics