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Michael Vaughan has the highest win ratio out of any captain in the Wisden Trophy winning 10 of his 11 Tests as captain. This is a list of Wisden Trophy Test cricket series played between England and West Indies which dates back to 1963. It was usually played alternately in England and West Indies, although early series were predominantly ...
It was scheduled as a four-day match but play only took place on two because of bad weather. Although the two teams consisted of recognised players, the South African Board of Control decided as late as 1930 that it had not been a first-class match. Wisden 1931 reproduced a letter from the SABC which outlined its case.
He hit an unbeaten 109 in that season in the match against Essex. [6] The Wisden obituary records Hale reminiscing about the pace of Essex fast bowler Charles Kortright and claiming that "he hit me black and blue"; in fact, the bulk of the Essex bowling was done by medium-pace bowlers and Kortright failed to take a wicket in his 20 overs. [4]
But his pugnacious batting was an asset as well: "Never a sound or orthodox player, he had plenty of strokes and hit the ball astonishingly hard for so small a man," Wisden's obituary noted. [5] In 1937 he hit 109, the only century in a Warwickshire total of 518, in the match against Gloucestershire at Gloucester. [6]
The Wisden trophy currently resides in the MCC Museum at Lord's Cricket Ground. [12] In 1963 John Wisden & Co. Ltd, with the approval of the MCC and the WICB, presented the first Wisden Trophy, to be contested in a similar manner to the Ashes. The trophy is around 30 centimetres high, and a similar distance across its base.
Wisden – Stan McCabe, Bill O'Reilly, George Paine, Bill Ponsford, ... Bill O'Reilly topped the averages with 109 wickets @ 17.04 References. Annual reviews
Geoffrey Michael Bennett (17 December 1909 – 26 July 1982) played first-class cricket for Somerset between 1928 and 1939.. Bennett was born at Bruton, Somerset.A right-handed middle-order batsman and an occasional right-arm medium pace bowler, Bennett was one of the more regular of Somerset's amateur batsmen in an era when the county could afford only half a dozen professional players.
Thomas Godfrey Evans CBE (18 August 1920 – 3 May 1999) was an English cricketer who played for Kent and England.Described by Wisden as 'arguably the best wicket-keeper the game has ever seen', Evans collected 219 dismissals in 91 Test match appearances between 1946 and 1959 and a total of 1066 in all first-class matches.