Lives in Cricket No 24 - Edgar Willsher

103 Career Statistics First-Class Cricket: Bowling Season O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m 1850 4 4-? ? - - 1851 80 15 70 11 6-? 17.70 1 - 1852 78.3 26 155 5 2-22 31.00 - - 1853 157.2 61 198 21 6-47 14.14 1 - 1854 318.1 136 414 32 7-28 12.93 2 - 1855 284.3 27 392 21 7-22 18.66 1 1 1856 415.2 167 592 66 7-37 10.76 7 4 1857 623.3 293 782 71 6-22 11.01 5 1 1858 211.3 86 323 29 7-53 11.13 3 1 1859 579.3 246 790 79 7-51 10.00 8 2 1860 699 347 681 80 8-16 9.32 5 1 1861 861.2 373 1014 87 8-27 11.65 5 1 1862 681 309 845 79 6-32 10.69 8 1 1863 1035.2 474 1339 80 7-22 16.73 4 - 1864 871.2 386 1065 79 7-47 13.48 6 - 1865 614.2 276 715 47 7-43 16.25 3 2 1866 578.1 272 688 52 7-24 13.23 3 1 1867 605.3 294 755 51 8-104 14.80 2 1 1868 999.3 529 1128 113 7-44 9.98 12 6 1869 816.3 416 1028 64 7-54 16.06 6 2 1870 918.3 508 1062 84 7-22 12.64 9 2 1871 756.1 401 935 70 7-46 13.35 7 2 1872 428.2 210 570 30 5-89 19.00 2 - 1873 379 191 473 34 6-42 13.91 3 1 1874 290.1 139 434 35 7-22 12.40 4 1 1875 30.3 14 45 5 4-32 9.00 - - Totals 13316.3 6196 16493 1329 8-16 12.78 107 30 Notes: Overs were of four balls throughout Willsher’s first-class career. He took his wickets at the rate of one per 41.10 balls and conceded runs at a rate equivalent to 1.86 runs per six-ball over. Of his 1,329 wickets, 710 (53%) were bowled; 567 (43%) were caught; 28 (2%) were stumped; 21 (2%) were lbw and three were hit wicket. He dismissed three batsmen twenty-five times or more; these were J.Grundy 44, T.Lockyer 26, and G.Griffith 25. For Kent he took 786 wickets at 12.55, including 64 five-wicket returns. First-Class Cricket: Fifty runs or more in an innings (12) Score For Opponent Venue Season 53 Kent¹ MCC Lord’s 1860 73 Players¹ Gentlemen Lord’s 1860 55 All-England XI¹ United England XI The Oval 1860 52 Kent¹ Sussex Tunbridge Wells 1860 59 Kent¹ Surrey The Oval 1861 54 England¹ Surrey The Oval 1862 59* Kent¹ Surrey Hove 1863 77 Players¹ Gentlemen The Oval 1863 89 Kent² Sussex Sandgate 1863 58 Kent¹ Surrey The Oval 1865 70 Kent¹ Surrey Crystal Palace 1869 57* Players of Gentlemen The Oval 1869 South¹ of South Notes: The index figures ¹ and ² in this and the following table indicate the innings in which the feat was achieved. The ground at Hove was the Brunswick Ground, and at Tunbridge Wells the Higher Common Ground.