Lives in Cricket No 16 - Joe Hardstaff

105 MCC¹ Barbados Bridgetown 1947/48 182* Nottinghamshire¹ Warwickshire Trent Bridge 1948 100 Nottinghamshire¹ Surrey Trent Bridge 1948 107 Nottinghamshire² Australians Trent Bridge 1948 100* Nottinghamshire¹ Northamptonshire Trent Bridge 1949 114* Nottinghamshire² Northamptonshire Trent Bridge 1949 138 Nottinghamshire¹ Lancashire Trent Bridge 1949 162* Nottinghamshire¹ Yorkshire Sheffield 1949 124 Nottinghamshire¹ Glamorgan Trent Bridge 1949 123* Nottinghamshire¹ New Zealanders Trent Bridge 1949 156* Nottinghamshire¹ Sussex Trent Bridge 1949 123 Leveson-Gower’s XI¹ New Zealanders Scarborough 1949 135 Auckland² Otago Dunedin 1949/50 116 Nottinghamshire¹ Leicestershire Trent Bridge 1950 119 Nottinghamshire¹ Northamptonshire Trent Bridge 1950 145 Nottinghamshire¹ Essex Ilford 1950 149* Nottinghamshire¹ Middlesex Trent Bridge 1950 109* Nottinghamshire² Warwickshire Trent Bridge 1950 132 Nottinghamshire¹ Somerset Yeovil 1951 151 Nottinghamshire¹ South Africans Trent Bridge 1951 247 Nottinghamshire¹ Northamptonshire Trent Bridge 1951 105 Nottinghamshire¹ Essex Trent Bridge 1952 126 Nottinghamshire¹ Northamptonshire Northampton 1952 116 Nottinghamshire¹ Derbyshire Trent Bridge 1952 103 Nottinghamshire¹ Worcestershire Dudley 1952 104* Nottinghamshire¹ Lancashire Trent Bridge 1952 144* Nottinghamshire¹ Middlesex Trent Bridge 1952 112 Nottinghamshire¹ Essex Trent Bridge 1954 120 Nottinghamshire¹ Sussex Hastings 1954 102 Nottinghamshire¹ Warwickshire Trent Bridge 1954 134 Nottinghamshire² Yorkshire Trent Bridge 1955 Note: The index figures ¹ and ² above indicate the innings in which the feat was achieved. Umpiring Hardstaff umpired in one first-class match, Griqualand West v North Eastern Transvaal, at De Beers Stadium, Kimberley, Cape Province, in December 1954. Joe Hardstaff, sen Hardstaff’s father, ‘Old Joe’, played five Test matches for England, all in Australia in 1907/08, scoring 311 runs at 31.10, with a highest score of 72, and taking one catch. He played first-class cricket from 1902 to 1926, appearing in 377 matches, of which 340 were for Nottinghamshire. He scored 17,146 runs at 31.34, including 26 centuries; took 58 wickets at 38.68, with one five-wicket return; and made 187 catches and two stumpings. His highest score was 213* for Notts v Sussex at Hove in 1914, and his best bowling return was five for 133 for Notts v Australians at Trent Bridge in 1921. He umpired in 408 first-class matches between 1926 and 1946, including 21 Tests between 1928 and 1935. Sources: cricketarchive.com and Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks . Career Statistics 133