Whilst full-back Humphrey Ward was a member of the Great Britain football squad at the 1920 Olympics, it was as a cricketer that he was better known. Educated at Shrewsbury School and then Oxford University he was both a cricket and football Blue. He played First Class cricket for Oxford University and in 1920, one match for the Yorkshire first XI against Derbyshire. He also played for the MCC but most of his First Class cricket was played in India. A wicketkeeper he scored over 3500 runs in 66 matches at an average of 32.46. He was still top grade cricket in India in 1945, just 12 months before he died and 27 years after his début. Ward was the son of a Yorkshire Church of England Minister and joined the Indian Forest Service after graduating from Oxford in 1921. He subsequently spent most of his life in India.
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