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Wally Hardinge
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Right-hand bat
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Slow left-arm orthodox
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30
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1500
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25
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623
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33519
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3651
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75/158
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2 July
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1921
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1921
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, born
February 25 ,
1886 , and died at
Cambridge on
May 8 ,
1965 , was a cricketer who played for
Kent and
England . He was also a
Football international for
England .
In a
First-class Cricket career lasting more than 30 years from the age of 16, Hardinge, a right-handed opening batsman, scored 33,519 runs and 75 centuries. His run total puts him 45th on the all-time list of runmakers, and he passed 1,000 runs for a season 18 times. His one appearance in
Test Cricket came against
Warwick Armstrong 's 1921
Australians in a match where
Jack Hobbs had to withdraw on the opening day because of
Appendicitis . Hardinge scored 25 and 5 and was not picked again.
Hardinge continued to score heavily in county cricket, his best season being 1928 when, at 42 years of age, he scored 2,446 runs at an average just under 60 runs per innings. He scored centuries in four consecutive innings in 1913 and four times scored centuries in both innings of a match. in 1921, he became only the third cricketer, after
C. B. Fry and Warwick Armstrong, to score a double-century and a century in the same match. He bowled slow left arm spinners well enough to take 371 career wickets. He was a
Wisden Cricketer Of The Year in 1915.
As a footballer, Hardinge played as an
Inside Forward . He started out at various amateur clubs in Kent before signing for
Newcastle United in May 1905. After two and a half years there, mainly as a reserve (he played only nine league matches), he moved to
Sheffield United for £350. There he flourished, becoming one of the trickiest inside forwards in the game, scoring nearly 50 goals in just under 150 league matches. While at
Bramall Lane he won one England cap, against
Scotland in 1910.
In the summer of 1913 Hardinge returned to the south, signing for
Woolwich Arsenal (who had just moved into their new
Highbury ground, and would drop the "Woolwich" from their name a year later), and played there until the outbreak of
World War I . Hardinge served as a
Chief Petty Officer in the
Royal Navy , and upon being demobbed after the end of the war, played another season at Arsenal before dropping down to the reserves. He hung up his boots in 1921, having played 55 times and scored 14 goals for the Gunners first team.
After retiring from cricket, Hardinge worked for John Wisden & Co. He also had a spell as a coach of
Tottenham Hotspur 's reserve team in the 1930s.
