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((Short description|English cricketer (1923–1985)))
((Use dmy dates|date=January 2022))
((Use British English|date=June 2012))
((More citations needed|date=April 2011))
((Infobox cricketer
| name              = Johnny Wardle
| image             = J.H.Wardle1954.png
| caption           = Wardle in 1954
| fullname          = John Henry Wardle
| country           = England
| birth_date        = ((Birth date|1923|1|8|df=yes))
| birth_place       = [[Ardsley, South Yorkshire|Ardsley]], [[Barnsley]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], England
| death_date        = ((Death date and age|1985|7|23|1923|1|8|df=yes))
| death_place       = [[Hatfield, South Yorkshire|Hatfield]], [[Doncaster]], [[Yorkshire]], England
| family            = 
| batting           = Left-handed
| bowling           = [[Slow left-arm orthodox]]<br />[[Left-arm unorthodox]]
| club1              = [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]]
| year1              = ((nowrap|1946–1958))
|
| columns           = 2
| column1           = [[Test cricket|Test]]
| matches1          = 28
| runs1             = 653
| bat avg1          = 19.78
| 100s/50s1         = 0/2
| top score1        = 66
| deliveries1       = 6,597
| wickets1          = 102
| bowl avg1         = 20.39
| fivefor1          = 5
| tenfor1           = 1
| best bowling1     = 7/36
| catches/stumpings1= 12/–
| column2           = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches2          = 412 
| runs2             = 7,333
| bat avg2          = 16.08
| 100s/50s2         = 0/18
| top score2        = 79
| deliveries2       = 102,626
| wickets2          = 1,846
| bowl avg2         = 18.97
| fivefor2          = 134
| tenfor2           = 29
| best bowling2     = 9/25
| catches/stumpings2= 257/–
| international      = true
| testdebutdate      = 11 February 
| testdebutyear      = 1948
| testdebutagainst   = West Indies
| testcap            = 333
| lasttestdate       = 20 June
| lasttestyear       = 1957
| lasttestagainst    = West Indies
| source            = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/0/820/820.html CricketArchive
| date              = 2 March
| year              = 2020
))

'''Johnny Wardle''' (8 January 1923 &ndash; 23 July 1985)<ref name="Cap">((cite book |title=If The Cap Fits |last=Bateman |first=Colin |year=1993 |publisher=Tony Williams Publications |isbn=1-869833-21-X |pages=[https://archive.org/details/ifcapfits0000unse/page/180 180–181] |url=https://archive.org/details/ifcapfits0000unse/page/180 ))</ref> was an English [[spin bowling]] [[cricket]]er whose Test Match career lasted between 1948 and 1957.<ref>((Cite web|title=Cricket Profiel Johnny Wardle|url=https://www.skysports.com/cricket/player/5474/johnny-wardle|access-date=2021-05-11|website=Sky Sports|language=en))</ref> His [[Test cricket|Test]] bowling average of 20.39 is the lowest in Test cricket by any recognised spin bowler since the [[First World War]].<ref name="Cap"/>

Wardle played for [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]], [[England cricket team|England]], and later for [[Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club|Cambridgeshire]].<ref name="Cap"/>

==Life and career==
John Henry Wardle was born in [[Ardsley, South Yorkshire|Ardsley]], [[Barnsley]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]. He attended [[Wath Grammar School]] from age 11 to 15.<ref name="Cric"/>

Wardle, though mainly a classical orthodox left-arm finger-spinner, was probably the most versatile of all the great spin bowlers, and he was capable both of originality and accuracy. His ability to bowl left-arm wrist spinners that turned and bounced much more sharply, made him preferred over [[Tony Lock]] in his heyday.<ref name="Cap"/> Wardle is the only English bowler to master this unusual style, and it gave him many of his greatest successes, notably in [[South Africa]] in 1956–1957, where he achieved the feat of taking 100 wickets in a season outside [[England]]. He was able, when circumstances allowed, to bowl [[slow left-arm wrist-spin]] and did so at the highest level.<ref name="Cap"/>

Wardle was also a dangerous left-handed hitter, whose stocky build permitted him to drive powerfully. Often his hitting against opposing spinners suggested that the defensive batting so characteristic of 1950s and 1960s [[first-class cricket]] was not the most effective method of play.((Citation needed|date=April 2011))

Wardle, whose family were miners, took to cricket during the [[Second World War]] and was so successful as a spin bowler and hard-hitting batsman that Yorkshire engaged him when looking for a successor to [[Hedley Verity]], who had been killed in the war. Wardle only played one match in 1946, when the 43-year-old [[Arthur Booth (cricketer, born 1902)|Arthur Booth]]'s economy rate saw him head the averages, but when Booth fell ill with arthritis, Wardle took his place. In spite of a dry summer [[1947 English cricket season|in 1947]], Wardle was chosen for a largely experimental, [[Gubby Allen]]-led, [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC) tour of the West Indies.<ref name="Cap"/> He was disappointing on that tour, but his skill developed in the wet summer of the following year. Though an injury wiped out a quarter of his [[1949 English cricket season|1949 season]], Wardle was deadly on the few rain-affected pitches that summer, and his bowling helped Yorkshire to make a late, albeit unsuccessful, tilt at the [[County Championship]] title.

1950 saw him play in a home Test for the first time, but apart from some free hitting against [[Sonny Ramadhin|Ramadhin]] and [[Alf Valentine|Valentine]], whose spin bowling routed England, he did little of note. Nonetheless, with Yorkshire's bowling not nearly so strong as in the days of [[Bill Bowes|Bowes]] and Verity, Wardle's capacity for hard work revealed itself fully for the first time: he bowled more balls than any bowler since [[Tich Freeman]] in 1934, and his 741 maidens showed his accuracy. His 172 wickets that season was Wardle's career best return.<ref name="Cric"/>

[[1951 English cricket season|In 1951]], Wardle was unsuccessful in challenging [[Jim Laker]] and [[Roy Tattersall]] for a Test spin bowling place. However, with [[Bob Appleyard]] hit by illness, Wardle's workrate reached such levels in the following two seasons that his total of 20,723 balls delivered in these two seasons, has been beaten only by [[Tich Freeman]], and his 11,084 balls [[1952 English cricket season|in 1952]], is the fourth-highest aggregate ever delivered. During August 1952, Wardle sent down 165 overs in two consecutive games. Though Yorkshire had a decline in fortunes in 1953, Wardle took 4 for 7 on a soft pitch at [[Old Trafford (cricket)|Old Trafford]], and he was named one of the [[Wisden Cricketers of the Year]], and he toured the West Indies again. The competition from Laker and Lock, though, gave him little chance to distinguish himself, although in two innings of 39 and 66, he showed the virtue in hitting against Ramadhin and Valentine. The latter innings were of real consequence as Wardle, batting with [[Len Hutton]], put on 105 for the seventh wicket which heralded a series-saving victory for England.<ref name="Cric"/>

By [[1954 English cricket season|1954]], with [[Fred Trueman]] and Appleyard back in the team, Yorkshire rebounded and Wardle was able to become an enterprising attacking spinner once more. In this role, he took 16 wickets against [[Sussex County Cricket Club|Sussex]], and bowled so well against [[Pakistan cricket team|Pakistan]] that he [[English cricket team in Australia in 1954–55|toured Australia]] with [[Len Hutton]]'s MCC side that winter. Apart from 5 for 79 and 3 for 51 on a flood-soaked pitch at [[Sydney Cricket Ground|Sydney]], he had little to do.<ref name="Cric"/> His use of left-arm off-breaks and googlies the following summer allowed Wardle to reach almost 200 first-class and 15 Test wickets. In the wet [[1956 English cricket season|summer of 1956]], Lock was again preferred in [[Australian cricket team in England in 1956|the Test side]], to the disgust of the Yorkshire members,<ref name="Cap"/> but Wardle, chiefly bowling wrist-spin, baffled all [[South Africa cricket team|South African]] batsmen that winter on pitches giving him little help. In the second Test at [[Newlands Cricket Ground]], [[Cape Town]], he took 7 for 36 to dismiss [[South Africa]] for 72, and may have taken more than 26 Test wickets but for injury. [[English cricket team in South Africa in 1956–57|On that tour]], Wardle claimed 90 first-class wickets at 12 runs apiece.<ref name="Cap"/>

[[1957 English cricket season|1957]] was a disappointing year, with Wardle's workrate finally appearing to decline, and Lock tightening his grip on the Test place after Wardle failed at [[Lord's]]. Although in the favourable conditions of [[1958 English cricket season|1958]] Wardle was successful, friction between him and the Yorkshire committee, became intolerable when Wardle announced he would write an article in the ''[[Daily Mail]]'', that was openly critical of the running of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Although MCC had chosen Wardle for the coming [[Ashes series|Ashes tour]], they withdrew immediately. Wardle made this announcement, and Yorkshire responded by dropping Wardle for the [[Roses Match]] with Lancashire.<ref name="Cap"/><ref name="Cric"/> They never recalled him, and when Wardle announced he would play for [[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|Nottinghamshire]], Yorkshire steadfastly refused to allow special registration.

Wardle was big enough to admit his troubles were largely of his own making, and any ill feelings on his part was forgotten when he helped Yorkshire and England off-spinner [[Geoff Cope]] to iron out the problems in his action, which had occasionally had him 'called' for [[Throwing (cricket)|throwing]].

Wardle's autobiography, ''Happy Go Johnny'', was published in 1957.<ref name="Cric"/>

Consequently, Wardle played the rest of his cricket as a professional in the [[Lancashire League (cricket)|Lancashire League]] for [[Nelson Cricket Club|Nelson]] and [[Rishton Cricket Club|Rishton]], and until 1969 with [[Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club|Cambridgeshire]] in the [[Minor counties of English and Welsh cricket|Minor Counties]] Championship.<ref name="Cric">((cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22288.html |title=Johnny Wardle |author=Wisden |author-link=Wisden Cricketers' Almanack |work=Espncricinfo|access-date=30 April 2011))</ref>

Yorkshire and the MCC both tried to atone by making Wardle an honorary life member, and he took up managing a country club near [[Doncaster]].<ref name="Cap"/><ref name="Cric"/>

Johnny Wardle died, after never recovering from an operation on a [[brain tumour]], in [[Hatfield, South Yorkshire|Hatfield]], [[Doncaster]], Yorkshire, in July 1985, at the age of 62.<ref name="Cric"/>

A biography, ''Johnny Wardle: Cricket Conjuror'' (((ISBN|978-0715390535))), by [[Alan Hill (author)|Alan Hill]], was published in 1988.<ref>''Wisden'' 1989, p. 1248.</ref>

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