 Hayward in about 1899 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 29 March 1871 Cambridge, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 19 July 1939 (aged 68) Cambridge, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut | 13 February 1896 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 16 June 1909 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Walter Hayward (29 March 1871 – 19 July 1939) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Surrey and England between the 1890s and the outbreak of World War I. He was primarily an opening batsman, noted especially for the quality of his off-drive. Neville Cardus wrote that he "was amongst the most precisely technical and most prolific batsmen of any time in the annals of cricket."[1] He was only the second batsman to reach the landmark of 100 first-class centuries, following WG Grace.[1] In the 1906 English season he scored 3,518 runs, a record aggregate since surpassed only by Denis Compton and Bill Edrich in 1947.[2]
- ^ a b Barclays World of Cricket – 2nd Edition, 1980, Collins Publishers, ISBN 0-00-216349-7, p172.
- ^ Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 2008 edition, p281.