# Wal Walmsley

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{{short description|Australian cricketer (1916–1978)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}}
{{Use Australian English|date=February 2016}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name              = Wal Walmsley
| image             = 
| caption           = 
| country           = Australia
| fullname          = Walter Thomas Walmsley
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1916|3|16|df=yes}}
| birth_place       = [Homebush, New South Wales](/source/Homebush%2C_New_South_Wales)
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|1978|2|25|1916|3|16|df=yes}}
| death_place       = [Hamilton, New Zealand](/source/Hamilton%2C_New_Zealand) 
| batting           = Right-handed 
| bowling           = Right-arm leg-break
| club1             = [New South Wales](/source/New_South_Wales_cricket_team)
| year1             = 1945/46
| club2             = [Tasmania](/source/Tasmania_cricket_team)
| year2             = 1947/48
| club3             = [Queensland](/source/Queensland_cricket_team)
| year3             = {{nowrap|1954/55–1958/59}}
| club4             = [Northern Districts](/source/Northern_Districts_men's_cricket_team)
| year4             = 1959/60
| columns           = 1
| column1           = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket)
| matches1          = 37 
| runs1             = 1,064
| bat avg1          = 27.28
| 100s/50s1         = 2/4
| top score1        = 180[*](/source/not_out)
| deliveries1       = 7,916
| wickets1          = 122
| bowl avg1         = 31.64
| fivefor1          = 3
| tenfor1           = 0
| best bowling1     = 6/56
| catches/stumpings1= 8/–
| source            = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/2/2762/2762.html CricketArchive
| date              = 25 September
| year              = 2013
}} 
'''Walter Thomas Walmsley''' (16 March 1916 – 25 February 1978) was a [cricket](/source/cricket)er who played [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket) for three Australian state teams and for [Northern Districts](/source/Northern_Districts_men's_cricket_team) in New Zealand between 1945–46 and 1959–60.

thumb|left|The Tasmanian team that played the Indians at Hobart in January 1948. Wal Walmsley is seated third from the right.
A batsman who could bat at any position in the order and a leg-break and googly bowler, Wal Walmsley made his first-class debut for [New South Wales](/source/New_South_Wales_cricket_team) against [Queensland](/source/Queensland_cricket_team) in a [friendly match](/source/friendly_match) in 1945–46. He moved to [Launceston, Tasmania](/source/Launceston%2C_Tasmania), to coach, where he captained North (of Tasmania) against South in January 1948, taking 10 wickets in the match and scoring 63 in the second innings.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/179/179444.html South v North 1947-48]</ref> He played in [Tasmania](/source/Tasmania_cricket_team)'s three first-class games that followed shortly afterwards, scoring 180 not out and taking three wickets against the [Indian touring team](/source/Indian_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1947%E2%80%9348) at Launceston.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/18/18350.html Tasmania v Indians 1947-48]</ref>

Walmsley was appointed coach of the [Queensland Cricket Association](/source/Queensland_Cricket_Association) in 1948–49,<ref>''Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket'', Oxford UP, Melbourne, 1996, p. 560.</ref> but did not play for Queensland until the 1954–55 season, after which he became a regular in the side. In his first [Sheffield Shield](/source/Sheffield_Shield) match, at the age of 38, he took 5 for 84 and 3 for 90 to help Queensland to victory over [South Australia](/source/South_Australia_cricket_team).<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/21/21384.html South Australia v Queensland 1954-55]</ref>

In 1956–57 Walmsley took 3 for 52 and 5 for 124 against New South Wales.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/22/22295.html New South Wales v Queensland 1956-57]</ref> His batting by this stage was generally less effective than his bowling (in 28 matches for Queensland he scored 577 runs at 21.37<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/2/2762/f_Batting_by_Team.html Wal Walmsley batting by team]</ref> and took 102 wickets at 30.12<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/2/2762/f_Bowling_by_Team.html Wal Walmsley bowling by team]</ref>) but he scored 106 not out batting at number 10 against New South Wales in 1957–58, sharing a ninth-wicket partnership of 120 with [Ray Reynolds](/source/Ray_Reynolds) and an unbroken tenth-wicket partnership of 105 with [John Freeman](/source/John_Childe-Freeman). He also took six wickets in the match.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/22/22711.html Queensland v New South Wales 1957-58]</ref>

In 1958–59 he took 6 for 56 to help Queensland to an innings victory over South Australia.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23228.html Queensland v South Australia 1958-59]</ref> Before the season ended, he moved to New Zealand to take up a position teaching at [the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints](/source/the_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints) college in [Hamilton](/source/Hamilton%2C_New_Zealand),<ref>''Oxford Companion'', p. 560.</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Bowler to Teach at Hamilton |journal=Press |date=16 December 1958 |page=26 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19581216.2.208}}</ref> playing his first first-class match in New Zealand, for a combined Northern Districts and [Central Districts](/source/Central_Districts_cricket_team) team against the touring [MCC](/source/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1958%E2%80%9359), almost immediately.

Walmsley played three matches for Northern Districts in 1959–60 at the age of 43, taking 12 wickets at 26.58,<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/2/2762/f_Bowling_by_Season.html Wal Walmsley bowling by season]</ref> then retired. He remained in New Zealand with his large family, and died suddenly in Hamilton at 61.<ref>''[Wisden](/source/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack)'' 1979, p. 1088.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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Category:1916 births
Category:1978 deaths
Category:Australian cricketers
Category:New South Wales cricketers
Category:Queensland cricketers
Category:Tasmania cricketers
Category:Northern Districts cricketers
Category:Australian cricket coaches
Category:Cricketers from Sydney
Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen

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