Norman Yardley
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Norman Walter Dransfield Yardley was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England, as a right-handed batsman and occasional bowler. An amateur, h
Yardley in 1946
Yardley at an unofficial Test match against India in Lahore on 13 November 1937
Yardley receiving massage in 1947 before a match against South Africa
Hedley Verity
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Hedley Verity was a professional cricketer who played for Yorkshire and England between 1930 and 1939. A slow left-arm orthodox bowler, he took 1,956 wickets in first-class cricket at an average of 14
Norman Yardley
…wickets. War brought first-class cricket to an end in 1939, and Yardley joined the 1st Battalion of the Green Howards, along with his Yorkshire team-mate Hedley Verity. After training in Omagh, Northern Ireland, where he played several cricket matches with Verity, he served in India, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Sicily, Italy…
Hedley Verity cigarette card
Wilfred Rhodes, Verity's predecessor as Yorkshire's left-arm spinner
Bowes and Verity in 1932
Douglas Jardine, Verity's captain in Australia and India, was an admirer of Verity.