Walter Bradshaw, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Walter Bradshaw

Cricketer, born 1909

Date of Birth: 22-Jan-1909

Place of Birth: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Date of Death: 13-Jul-1986

Profession: cricketer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Walter Bradshaw

  • Walter Hulatt Bradshaw (22 January 1909 – 13 July 1986) was an Australian born English cricketer.
  • Bradshaw was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium.
  • He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He was educated at Malvern College, where he played for the college cricket team.
  • Bradshaw later undertook studies at Oxford University,.
  • He made his first-class debut for Oxford University Cricket Club against the Free Foresters.
  • He played twelve further first-class matches for the university, the last of which came against Cambridge University in 1931.
  • With the bat, he scored 178 runs at an average of 14.83, with his only innings of note, a score of 81, coming against Gloucestershire in 1930.
  • He was an average bowler when he played for Oxford University, taking 25 wickets at a bowling average of 39.28, with best figures of 4/15.
  • While at Oxford, he also achieved an Oxford Blue in football.After his studies at Oxford, Bradshaw became an educator and embarked on a teaching assignment in the British Raj.
  • While there, he played in the Ranji Trophy for Rajputana and was the team's first Ranji Trophy captain.
  • It was though for a combined Rajputana and Central India that he played his first first-class match in India against the touring Australian team in 1935.
  • The match was not a successful one for him with the bat, with Bradshaw making scores of 2 and 0.
  • With the ball, he took the wicket of Frank Bryant in the Australians first-innings for the cost of 56 runs from 17 overs.
  • In their second innings, he took the wickets of Wendell Bill and Arthur Allsopp for the cost of 42 runs from 14 overs.
  • His debut for Rajputana came in the same season against Central India.
  • He made six further first-class appearances for the team, the last of which came against Southern Punjab.
  • While in India, he also played two matches for the Europeans in 1938.
  • His appearances in India benefited his bowling.
  • A tall man, he had increased his strength, running in from a short run up and with the ability to lift the ball sharply and move the ball in from off.
  • For Rajputana he took 31 wickets at an average of 20.09, with best figures of 7/52.
  • These figures, his best in first-class cricket, came against Southern Punjab in 1938, a match in which he also took 5/69 to give him his only ten wicket haul in a match.Following World War II, Bradshaw played Minor Counties Championship cricket for Buckinghamshire in 1948, making four appearances.
  • For many years he worked as a master at Stowe School, where he coached the school cricket team.
  • He died in Adderbury, Oxfordshire on 13 July 1986.

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