Thomas Walter Hayward (29 March 1871 – 19 July 1939) was an English
first-class cricket
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er who played for
Surrey
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and
England
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between the 1890s and the outbreak of
World War I
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. He was primarily an opening batsman, noted especially for the quality of his off-drive.
Neville Cardus
Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus, CBE (2 April 188828 February 1975) was an English writer and critic. From an impoverished home background, and mainly self-educated, he became ''The Manchester Guardian''s cricket correspondent in 1919 and it ...
wrote that he "was amongst the most precisely technical and most prolific batsmen of any time in the annals of cricket."
[Barclays World of Cricket – 2nd Edition, 1980, Collins Publishers, , p172.] He was only the second batsman to reach the landmark of
100 first-class centuries, following
WG Grace
William Gilbert Grace (18 July 1848 – 23 October 1915) was an English amateur cricketer who was important in the development of the sport and is widely considered one of its greatest players. He played first-class cricket
First-class c ...
.
In the
1906 English season he scored 3,518 runs, a record aggregate since surpassed only by
Denis Compton
Denis Charles Scott Compton (23 May 1918 – 23 April 1997) was an English multi-sportsman. As a cricketer he played in 78 Test matches and spent his whole cricket career with Middlesex. As a footballer, he played as a winger and spent most o ...
and
Bill Edrich
William John Edrich (26 March 1916 – 24 April 1986) was a first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex County Cricket Club, Middlesex, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), Norfolk County Cricket Club, Norfolk and England cricket team, England.
Ed ...
in
1947
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Events
January
* January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in ...
.
Career
Born 29 March 1871 in
Cambridge
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Hayward came from a cricketing family: his grandfather,
father
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and uncle had all played first-class cricket.
[His grandfather ]Daniel
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played (1832–1851) for Cambridge Town Club
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, Surrey
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and Marylebone Cricket Club
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(MCC); his father (also Daniel) played (1852–1869) for Cambridge Town Club, Surrey and Cambridgeshire
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. Hayward's famous uncle, Thomas Hayward, was a leading batsman who played 1854–1872 for Cambridge Town Club, Cambridgeshire and numerous representative teams including the England team that made the inaugural overseas tour to North America in 1859. Hayward himself made his debut for
Surrey
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in
1893
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
* Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson.
* January 6 – Th ...
and quickly established himself as an important part of the side, being
capped
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in
1894
Events January–March
* January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire.
* January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United S ...
and receiving the accolade of
Wisden Cricketer of the Year
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the following season. Although primarily a batsman, Hayward took 481 wickets in first class cricket, taking 114 in the 1897 season. GL Jessop referred to him as an awkward bowler, who bowled wide of the crease and achieved unexpected nip off the wicket that seduced the unwary batsman into an injudicious stroke.
From
1895
Events
January–March
* January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
* January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Histor ...
through to his final season
in 1914, Hayward never once failed to reach 1,000 first-class runs, passing 2,000 on ten occasions and twice (in 1904 and 1906) scoring over 3,000; his 1906 aggregate of 3,518 (
at 66.37 with 13 hundreds) established a record which stood until surpassed by
Denis Compton
Denis Charles Scott Compton (23 May 1918 – 23 April 1997) was an English multi-sportsman. As a cricketer he played in 78 Test matches and spent his whole cricket career with Middlesex. As a footballer, he played as a winger and spent most o ...
and
Bill Edrich
William John Edrich (26 March 1916 – 24 April 1986) was a first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex County Cricket Club, Middlesex, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), Norfolk County Cricket Club, Norfolk and England cricket team, England.
Ed ...
in 1947.
In 1898 he made his highest first-class score of 315 against
Lancashire
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The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...
.
In 1899 he and
Bobby Abel
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put on 448 for Surrey's fourth wicket against
Yorkshire
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. This remains the highest partnership for any wicket for Surrey.
In 1900 he achieved the very rare feat of scoring
1,000 runs before the end of May
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.
Hayward's first
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for
England
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came on tour with
Lord Hawke
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's side against
South Africa
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at
Port Elizabeth
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in 1895/96, and in his second Test (at
Johannesburg
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) he hit 122 as England recorded an
innings victory. In all he played 35 times for England scoring three hundreds, his last innings coming against
Australia
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in 1909: run out for six to finish just one run short of 2,000 for his Test career. He scored 130 at
Old Trafford
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in the fourth Test of the
1899 Ashes series, batting at number six. He came in at 47 for 4, and enabled the final total to reach 372. It was described as "one of the great Test innings" by
Ralph Barker
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.
[Barker, Ralph & Rosenwater, Irving, ''England v Australia: A compendium of Test cricket between the countries 1877–1968'', B.T. Batsford, 1969, , p80.] He followed that up in the fifth Test, at
The Oval
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, with 137, putting on 185 for the first wicket with
FS Jackson. He headed the batting averages for both sides in this series, in seven innings scoring 413 runs at 68.83.
Once
Jack Hobbs
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made his Surrey debut
in 1905, he and Hayward formed an effective opening partnership for the county. The pair put on a hundred or more for the first wicket on 40 occasions. They only played together once for England, opening the innings when Hayward was recalled for what was to prove his final Test, at
Lord's
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in 1909.
Despite a gradual decline in his athleticism in his later career, Hayward remained an effective batsman well into his forties, and in
June 1913
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* Greece and Serbia signed an alliance to attack their former Balkan League ally, Bulgaria.
June 2, 1913 (Monday)
* After U.S. President Woodrow Wilson warned the public abo ...
he scored his hundredth first-class century, becoming only the second batsman (after
W. G. Grace
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) to achieve this feat. He made his 104th and final hundred in August 1914 against Yorkshire at
Lord's
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(where Surrey played several "home" matches after
World War I
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had begun), but made just one in his last innings of all, against
Gloucestershire
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The county town is the city of Gl ...
back at
The Oval
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and on grounds of age did not resume his career after the end of hostilities. Surrey won the
County Championship
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in his final season. Hayward had the rare honour for a professional of the time of captaining the side for six matches in August when the regular captain,
Cyril Wilkinson, was unavailable, in preference to the young amateurs
Donald Knight and
Percy Fender
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.
![Tom Hayward 1926](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Tom_Hayward_1926.jpg)
Although primarily known as a batsman, Hayward was also an effective bowler for his county in the middle of his career.
In 1897 he did the "double", with 1,368 runs and 114 wickets, and in 1899 he took two
hat-trick
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Origin
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s. His best bowling of 8–89 was achieved against
Warwickshire
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at
Edgbaston
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In the 19th century, the area was under the control of the Gough-Calthorpe family an ...
in 1901.
Hayward was respected as a model professional. Of his final years with Surrey, David Lemmon wrote: "He was the senior professional in all aspects, setting down standards of behaviour which others violated at their peril. He led by bearing and by example."
[David Lemmon, ''The History of Surrey County Cricket Club'', ]Christopher Helm
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Born in Dundee, he was raised in Forfar, w ...
, 1989, , p136.
He stood in one first-class match as an
umpire
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The term derives from the Old French nonper, ''non'', "not" and ''per'', ...
, the 1920 game between
Oxford University
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and
Essex
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. He died 19 July 1939 in Cambridge at the age of 68.
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