Thomas Hayward (21 March 1835 – 21 July 1876) was an English
first-class cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officia ...
er who was generally reckoned to be one of the outstanding batsmen of the 1850s and 1860s. In the early 1860s, he and
Robert Carpenter, his county colleague, were rated as the two finest batsmen in England.
Richard Daft was among those ranking them as equal first, though
George Parr reckoned Carpenter the better of the two.
Hayward was from a famous cricketing family. His father was
Daniel Hayward and his nephew was the Surrey and England batsman
Tom Hayward.
Hayward played as a right-handed batsman for
Cambridge Town Club (Cambridgeshire) 1854–72 and also for numerous representative teams. At the end of the
1859 English cricket season, Hayward was one of the 12 players who took part in cricket's first-ever overseas tour when an
England cricket team
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led by
George Parr visited North America. He also was member of the first All England XI to tour Australia, and travelled out on the
SS Great Britain
His overall first-class career record covered 118 matches. He scored 4789 runs at an average of 25.33 with a highest score of 132 and 6 centuries. He took 62 catches.
Hayward was also a good right arm medium pace bowler, using the prevailing roundarm style. His bowling figures were 267 wickets for 3937 runs at an average of 15.81. His best innings analysis was an impressive 9–30. He took 5wI on 19 occasions and 10wM in 2 matches.
He is buried in the
Mill Road cemetery, Cambridge.
References
Further reading
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H S Altham, ''A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914)'', George Allen & Unwin, 1926
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Derek Birley, ''A Social History of English Cricket'', Aurum, 1999
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Rowland Bowen, ''Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development'', Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
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Arthur Haygarth
Arthur Haygarth (4 August 1825 – 1 May 1903) was a noted amateur cricketer who became one of cricket's most significant historians. He played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club and Sussex between 1844 and 1861, as well as nu ...
, ''Scores & Biographies, Volumes 3–9 (1841–1866)'', Lillywhite, 1862–1867
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John Major
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, ''More Than A Game'', HarperCollins, 2007
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1835 births
1876 deaths
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