Arthur Wellard
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| Full name | Arthur William Wellard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 April 1902 Southfleet, Kent, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 31 December 1980 (aged 78) Eastbourne, Sussex, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 296) | 24 July 1937 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 24 June 1938 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1927–1950 | Somerset | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Arthur William Wellard (8 April 1902 – 31 December 1980) was a
Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1936.[2]
Wellard was a fast-bowling
Australians in 1938, and his 1,614 career wickets put him 63rd on the all-time bowling lists. Wellard was chosen in the England team to play three Tests in India in 1939–40, but the tour was cancelled due to the outbreak of World War II.[3]
Career
Wellard's first-class debut came at the age of 25 for
ten wickets in a match for the first time during his fourth County Championship match for Somerset against the visiting Kent side, with figures of 6/108 & 4/28.[6] He took five-wicket hauls in four out of five innings at the beginning of June 1929, with five in the only innings against Derbyshire,[7] six in the first innings against Leicestershire,[8] and another six in the first innings followed by five in the second innings when Gloucestershire visited Taunton.[9]
On 24 August 1938, at Wells, Wellard thumped five sixes off an over from Kent's England allrounder
Garry Sobers hit six sixes off Malcolm Nash in 1968. Wellard was well named: before Ian Botham
struck 80 sixes in 1985, our Arthur was the only man to hit 50 in a season, which he did four times, including the round number of 66 sixes in 1935.
Wellard played county cricket with Boss Meyer, the founder of Millfield School. Meyer was a well known eccentric and allegedly in 1947, Wellard who was even older than Meyer, was bowling rather well, when Northamptonshire batsman Dennis Brookes played a false stroke through the slips which Meyer, too crippled by lumbago to bend down, failed to catch. Meyer reached into his back pocket and said, "Sorry Arthur, here's a quid."[10]
References
- ^ a b c "Obituary: Arthur Wellard". Wisden. 1982. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
- ^ "Player Profile:Arthur Wellard". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
- ^ "Test Cricket Tours - England to India 1939-40". Test-cricket-tours.co.uk. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^ a b "First-Class Matches played by Arthur Wellard". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
- ^ "Bowling for Somerset in County Championship 1929". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
- ^ "Somerset v Kent". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
- ^ "Derbyshire v Somerset". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
- ^ "Leicestershire v Somerset". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
- ^ "Somerset v Gloucestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
- ^ David Foot. Sunshine, Sixes and Cider (1986 ed.). David & Charles, Newton Abbot. p. 152.
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