SPORTSMAN & SOLDIER
DEATH OF CAPTAIN HEDLEY VERITY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 1. The War Office announced that the Test cricketer, Hedley Verity, has died while a prisoner of war. He was last seen badly wounded in Sicily. Captain Hedley Verity, who was first reported missing believed killed, and then prisoner of war and wounded, during the campaign in Sicily, was one of the best left-arm bowlers British cricket has known. In his years of first-class play from 1930 to the outbreak of war he took 1558 wickets at an average cost of 13.1 runs apiece. In Test matches he took 144 wickets for 24,37 runs apiece. His best Test match was in the 1934 series, when he took 16 wickets for 104 runs, 14 of them in one day, including the famous Bradman and McCabe. He took all 10 wickets in a match on two occasions, one of these feats, at Leeds, in 1932, being performed at a cost of 10 runs.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 September 1943, Page 3
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