Thomas Hayward was a Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club

Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Cambridgeshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy.The club is based at The Avenue...

 and All-England Eleven

All-England Eleven

In cricket, the term All-England has been used for various non-international teams that have been formed for short-term purposes since the 1739 English cricket season and it indicates that the "Rest of England" is playing against, say, MCC or an individual county team...

 cricketer who was generally reckoned to be one of the outstanding batsmen of the 1850s and 1860s. In the early 1860s, he and Robert Carpenter

Robert Carpenter (cricketer)

Robert Pearson Carpenter was a noted English cricketer and umpire.A right-handed batsman and occasional wicket-keeper, he played for Cambridgeshire during its brief period as a first-class county in the 1850s and 1860s, as well as for the United All-England Eleven...

, his Cambridgeshire colleague, were rated as the two finest batsmen in England. Richard Daft

Richard Daft

Richard Daft was an English cricketer. He was one of the best batsmen of his day, the peak of his first-class career being the 1860s and early 1870s...

 was among those ranking them as equal first, though George Parr

George Parr (cricketer)

George Parr was an English cricketer, whose first-class career lasted from 1844 to 1870....

 reckoned Carpenter the better of the two.

He played as a right-handed batsman for Cambridge Town Club and Cambridgeshire 1854-1872 and also for numerous representative teams. In 1859 he took part in the first ever overseas cricket tour when he was a member of the England team visiting North America.

His overall first-class career record covered 118 matches. He scored 4789 runs at an average of 25.33 with a highest score of 132 and 6 centuries. He took 62 catches.

Hayward was also a good right arm medium pace bowler, using the prevailing roundarm style. His bowling figures were 267 wickets for 3937 runs at an average of 15.81. His best innings analysis was an impressive 9-30. He took 5wI on 19 occasions and 10wM in 2 matches.

Hayward was from a famous cricketing family. His father was Daniel Hayward

Daniel Hayward

Daniel Hayward was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1832 to 1851...

 and his nephew was the Surrey and England batsman Tom Hayward

Tom Hayward

Thomas Walter Hayward was a cricketer who played for Surrey and England between the 1890s and the outbreak of World War I. He was primarily an opening batsman, noted especially for the quality of his off-drive...

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At the end of the 1859 English cricket season

1859 English cricket season

The 1859 English cricket season saw one of the sport's most remarkable all-round performances by V E Walker.-First-class matches:* -Events:* 1 March. Formation of the present Kent CCC.* 21, 22 & 23 July...

, Hayward was one of the 12 players who took part in cricket's first-ever overseas tour when an England cricket team led by George Parr

George Parr (cricketer)

George Parr was an English cricketer, whose first-class career lasted from 1844 to 1870....

 visited North America.

External sources

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Further reading

• H S Altham
  Harry Altham
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  , A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914), George Allen & Unwin, 1926
• Derek Birley
  Derek Birley
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  , A Social History of English Cricket, Aurum, 1999
• Rowland Bowen
  Rowland Bowen
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  , Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
• Arthur Haygarth
  Arthur Haygarth
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  , Scores & Biographies, Volumes 3-9 (1841-1866), Lillywhite, 1862–1867
• John Major
  John Major
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  , More Than A Game, HarperCollins, 2007