Arthur William Wellard was a cricketer who played for Somerset and England.
10 Facts About Arthur Wellard
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Arthur Wellard was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1936.
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Arthur Wellard was a fast-bowling all-rounder who exemplified much of the happy-go-lucky cricket played by Somerset in the 1930s.
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Arthur Wellard was for many years the holder of the record number of sixes in a single season, with 72 in 1935.
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Arthur Wellard took 125 wickets in his maiden season in the tournament, finishing behind only Jack White in the club's tally for the year.
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Arthur Wellard took five-wicket hauls in four out of five innings at the beginning of June 1929, with five in the only innings against Derbyshire, six in the first innings against Leicestershire, and another six in the first innings followed by five in the second innings when Gloucestershire visited Taunton.
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On 24 August 1938, at Wells, Arthur Wellard thumped five sixes off an over from Kent's England allrounder Frank Woolley.
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Wellard was well named: before Ian Botham struck 80 sixes in 1985, our Arthur was the only man to hit 50 in a season, which he did four times, including the round number of 66 sixes in 1935.
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Arthur Wellard played county cricket with Boss Meyer, the founder of Millfield School.
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Meyer was a well known eccentric and allegedly in 1947, Arthur Wellard who was even older than Meyer, was bowling rather well, when Northamptonshire batsman Dennis Brookes played a false stroke through the slips which Meyer, too crippled by lumbago to bend down, failed to catch.