{{Short description|Australian clergyman, schoolmaster and cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=February 2016}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = The Reverend | name = Mick Waddy | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = 5 October 1880 | birth_place = Morpeth, New South Wales, Australia | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|23 September 1958|5 October 1880}} | death_place = South Littleton, Worcestershire, England | nationality = <!-- use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT --> | other_names = | occupation = Cricketer, teacher, clergyman | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | module = {{Infobox cricketer | child = yes | club1 = New South Wales | year1 = 1902–1914 | clubnumber1 = | club2 = Warwickshire County Cricket Club | year2 = 1919–1922 | clubnumber2 = | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 55 | runs1 = 2,326 | bat avg1 = 28.36 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 129 | hidedeliveries = true | catches/stumpings1 = 44/0 }} }} '''Ernest Frederick''' "'''Mick'''" '''Waddy''' (5 October 1880 – 23 September 1958) was an Australian clergyman, schoolmaster and cricketer who played first-class cricket before the First World War for New South Wales and then from 1919 to 1922 in England for Warwickshire.<ref name="ca">{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6156/6156.html| title = Mick Waddy| publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 27 November 2015}}</ref> He was born in Morpeth, New South Wales and died at South Littleton, Worcestershire.
==Background and family== Waddy came from a family of cricketers: his brothers Edgar Lloyd Waddy (Gar) and Percival Stacy Waddy (Stacy) both played first-class cricket.<ref name="ca"/> He was educated at the King's School, Parramatta and at the University of Sydney, and was ordained as a priest in the Church of England, serving in the 1900s as the curate in the parish of Singleton, New South Wales, where his brother Stacy was the vicar.<ref>{{cite news| url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article100681231 | title = The Brothers Waddy| newspaper = Albury Banner and Wodonga Express | page = 19 | date = 26 January 1906}}</ref>
==Australian cricketer== As a cricketer, Waddy was a right-handed batsman sometimes used as an opener, though his highest score was made batting at No 7; he also bowled right-arm medium-pace, but took no wickets in his three overs in first-class cricket.<ref name="ca"/> After a single unsuccessful appearance in first-class cricket for New South Wales in 1902–03, he returned to the team in 1904–05 and was immediately successful, scoring an unbeaten 129 in his first match of the season, the game against South Australia, this being the highest score of his career.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/6/6630.html | title = Scorecard: South Australia v New South Wales| date = 17 December 1904 | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 3 January 2016}}</ref> He retained his place in the New South Wales team for the major Sheffield Shield matches for the next four seasons, though he was not always successful: in 1906–07, he managed just 46 runs in five innings across the four matches in which he played.<ref name="ca"/> He returned to form in 1907–08, however, when he averaged 63 runs per innings and hit two centuries. In the New South Wales match against the touring England team he scored an unbeaten 107 and a second innings 57.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/7/7498.html | title = Scorecard: New South Wales v Marylebone Cricket Club | date = 14 February 1908 | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 5 January 2016}}</ref> After this, he was added as emergency cover twelfth man to the Australian team for the fifth Test match, though he was not required to play.<ref>{{cite news| url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64840779 | title = The Fifth Test| newspaper = The North Western Advocate (Tasmania) | page = 3 | date = 20 February 1908}}</ref> And at the start of the 1908–09 season, there was newspaper speculation that he could be in line for the 1909 Australian Test tour to England.<ref>{{cite news| url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12659159 | title = The Next Australian Team | newspaper = The Mercury (Hobart) | page = 7 | date = 26 October 1908}}</ref>
But Waddy then had a mediocre season and his cricket career in Australia declined to the point where he played his last first-class match there only two seasons later.<ref name="ca"/> Waddy also had a career change, though remaining alongside his elder brother: the newspaper report of his marriage in December 1908 to Margaret Helen Christie, matron of the Croydon Cottage Hospital, states that he was employed as a schoolmaster at The King's School, Parramatta, where his brother Stacy had become headmaster.<ref>{{cite news| url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14987017 | title = Social | newspaper = Sydney Morning Herald | page = 11 | date = 19 December 1908}}</ref> After he ceased from playing, Waddy remained influential in New South Wales cricket, acting as a selector.<ref>{{cite news| url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129941099 | title = New South Wales Vs South Africa | newspaper = The Referee (Sydney)| page = 12 | date = 22 February 1911 }}</ref>
In the 1913–14 season, he organised and captained a tour of Ceylon by a New South Wales team that included several former players, among them Test cricketers Roy Minnett and Gerry Hazlitt.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/8/New_South_Wales_in_Ceylon_1913-14.html | title = New South Wales in Ceylon, 1913–14| publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 4 January 2016 }}</ref> The team won eight of its nine matches, and the tour was a considerable success both on and off the field in improving the relations between Ceylon and Australia.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Foenander|first1=S. P.|title=Impressions of the Australian Visitors|journal=Referee|date=11 March 1914|page= 12|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/120281081|access-date=6 October 2017}}</ref> In January 1914 Waddy made a splendid century against the Planters at Kandy.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Foenander|first=S. P.|date=30 July 1921|title=Europeans v Ceylonese|url=https://magazine.cricketarchive.com/Magazine/1921/vol_i_no_14/14/index.html|journal=Cricketer Magazine 1921|volume=1;14|pages=10}}</ref>
==In England== In 1915, Waddy moved to England, taking up a post as a mathematics master at Rugby School; he remained there, becoming a house master, until 1940.<ref>{{cite news| url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article86107512 | title = Farewell to the Rev. E. F. Waddy | newspaper = The Cumberland Argus (Parramatta)| page = 6 | date = 24 July 1915}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17686421 | title = Married in England: Sydney Interest | newspaper = Sydney Morning Herald | page = 4| date = 5 August 1940 }}</ref> When first-class cricket resumed in England in 1919 after the First World War, Waddy, qualified by residence, played in the school holidays for Warwickshire. He had some success in the first three years, scoring a final century, an unbeaten 109 made out of a total of 229, in the 1921 match against Middlesex at Lord's.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10083.html | title = Scorecard: Middlesex v Warwickshire | date = 25 May 1921| publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 6 January 2016}}</ref> He was unsuccessful in 1922 and did not appear in first-class cricket after that season, though he continued in club cricket into the 1930s.<ref name="ca"/>
On retirement from Rugby School, Waddy became the vicar of South Littleton in Worcestershire where he died in 1958.<ref>{{cite news| title = Obituary: Rev E. F. Waddy | newspaper = The Times |issue = 54264 | page = 31 | location = London | date = 24 September 1958}}</ref>
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