Abe Waddington
Abraham Waddington was a professional cricketer for Yorkshire. He played in two Test matches for England, both against Australia in 1920–21. Between 1919 and 1927 he made 255 appearances for Yorkshire, and in all first-class cricket played 266 matches. He took a total of 852 wickets with his left arm fast-medium bowling.
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Abraham Waddington was a professional cricketer for Yorkshire. He played in two Test matches for England, both against Australia in 1920–21. Between 1919 and 1927 he made 255 appearances for Yorkshire, and in all first-class cricket played 266 matches. In these games, he took a total of 852 wickets with his left arm fast-medium bowling. He was a hostile bowler who sometimes sledged opposing batsmen and questioned umpires’ decisions. After his retirement from cricket he enjoyed some success as an amateur golfer. He died in 1959 at the age of 66 and was survived by his wife and three children. He is buried in Bradford, where he was born on 4 February 1893, with his parents and three brothers. He also had a brother, Sam, who worked for his father’s fat-refining business. He began playing cricket for Crossley Hall in the West Bradford League when he was 11 years old. As a teenager he played in the Bradford League for Lidget Green and then Laisterdyke, gaining a local reputation as a fast- medium bowler. In 1914 he played for Yorkshire Second XI in August 1914, alongside future First XI teammates Herbert Sutcliffe and Cec Tyson, but the outbreak of the First World War prevented him making any further appearances for the county. When war was declared he volunteered for Lord Kitchener’s New Army, joining the Bradford Pals battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment. On 1 July 1916, during the first day of the Battle of the Somme, he was wounded by shrapnel at Serre, and took shelter in a crater in no man’s land with other wounded soldiers.
One of these was the Yorkshire cricketers Major Booth, who was mortally wounded. After recovering, he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. In the early 1920s he played several football matches for Halifax Town as a goalkeeper, and after the Second World War he was charged with defrauding his wartime employers, the Ministry of Food; he was found not guilty. He continued to play league cricket and worked for the family business, a fat- refining firm, but maintained his connection with Yorkshire cricket. In May and June, the Yorkshire team struggled to dismiss sides on hard pitches; Wisman Cricketers suggested that “things looked very black” at this point in the season. Yorkshire’s bowling attack was severely depleted when cricket resumed in 1919 owing to a combination of retirements and deaths in the war. Having returned to play for the Yorkshire side at the beginning of July 1923, he followed up with nine wickets in his first game against Essex. He took four for 26 in 26 overs against Derbyshire, and the next day he took nine more wickets against Essex in his second game. After a similarly successful season in 1920 he was selected for the Marylebone Cricket Club tour of Australia, during which he appeared in two of the five Tests. However, the England team were outclassed and he took just one wicket and never played for England again.
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