Humphrey Ward
Humphrey Plowden Ward (20 January 1899 – 16 December 1946) was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played one match for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1920.[1] He also played first-class cricket for Oxford University (1919-1921), Europeans (India) (1921/22-1945/46), Madras (1926/27-1938/39), H. D. G. Leveson-Gower's XI (1931), Indian XI (1933/34) and the Madras Governor's XI (1941/42). He also played for the Yorkshire Second XI in 1920, and for the MCC from 1931 to 1935.[2]
Ward was born in Amotherby, Malton, Yorkshire, England. Ward graduated from Oxford in 1921 and joined the Indian Forest Service. Ward was an Oxford Blue and played first-class cricket as well as football for Oxford from 1919 to 1921.
On moving to Madras in 1921, Ward joined the Europeans cricket team and played for the team against Indians in the Madras Presidency Matches. He holds the record for the highest run aggregate in the Madras Presidency matches. He was the team’s principal wicket-keeper and captained the team intermittently between 1921 and 1946.
Ward also played for Madras in the Ranji Trophy from 1934 to 1946, including two internationals against the Australian Services and an All Australian eleven respectively. A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper, he scored 3,571 runs at 32.46, with a best score of 173 against the 'Indians'. He made four centuries in all, and twenty one fifties in his sixty six first-class matches. He held sixty seven catches and completed eighteen stumpings.
Ward died in December 1946, in Thornton-le-Dale, Yorkshire.
[edit] References
- ^ Warner, David (2011). The Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook (113th ed.). Ilkley, Yorkshire: Great Northern Books. ISBN 978-1-905080-85-4.
- ^ Muthiah, S. (1998). The spirit of Chepauk: the MCC story, a 150 year sporting tradition. East West Books (Madras) Pvt Ltd. pp. 158-161.
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