Full Name

George Gerald Tordoff

Born

December 06, 1929, Whitwood, Yorkshire

Died

January 16, 2008, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, (aged 78y 41d)

Batting Style

Left hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Medium

Education

Normanton Grammar School; Manchester University, Cambridge University

A middle-order batsman, Gerry Tordoff was an old-fashioned amateur sportsman in the 1950s, an era when they were fast dying out. He made his Somerset debut in 1950 as a 20-year-old appearing spasmodically while at university. His only year in the Cambridge side was 1952 when he won his Blue in a rain-blighted drawn Varsity match - earlier that season he had also won a football Blue as a left-back. He played the remainder of the 1952 summer for Somerset, passing 1000 runs, but joined the Royal Navy that autumn and thereafter turned out rarely for the county. In 1954 he made the highest of his five hundreds, 156 for Combined Services against the Pakistanis. In 1955 Somerset were in need of an amateur captain - a professional skipper was a year off - and the navy released him to fulfill the role. He made 1196 runs but was unable to lift the county off the bottom of the table, a position they had occupied for three summers, although he engineered four wins, double the best in any of those campaigns. He did not play for the county again after that summer - he received a commission - but appeared regularly for Combined Services and also represented Berkshire.
Martin Williamson

Gerry Tordoff Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAve100s50sCtSt
FC85155133975156*27.99520470

Bowling

FormatMatRunsWktsBBIAve5w10w
FC851959404/4348.9700

Debut/Last Matches of Gerry Tordoff

FC Matches

Span
1950 - 1962

Recent Matches of Gerry Tordoff

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Gentlemen vs Players20 & 44--13-Jul-1955Lord'sFC
Somerset vs Sth Africans0 & 41*--15-Jun-1955TauntonFC
Somerset vs Surrey18 & 0--14-May-1955The OvalFC
Comb Srvcs vs Pakistanis156* & 290/2323-Jun-1954CatterickFC
Comb Srvcs vs Australians14 & 150/6805-Sep-1953Kingston-upon-ThamesFC

Photos of Gerry Tordoff

Gerry Tordoff, Somerset's captain in 1955